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FREEWARE: Software MIDI player TiMidity for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darwin O'Connor)
Sun Feb 9 10:30:32 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 18:33:52 GMT
From: doconno@cc.UManitoba.CA (Darwin O'Connor)
Reply-To: doconno@cc.UManitoba.CA (Darwin O'Connor)
Reply-to: doconno@cc.umanitoba.ca (Darwin O'Connor)
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TiMidity is a program for converting MIDI files to waveform data suitable for
output to conventional sound files (.wav, .au) or direct and in real time to
your sound card. It is a port of the UNIX program by Tuukka Toivonen. It will
play MIDI files with a sound quality on par with wavetable MIDI sound systems,
which is vastly superior to the FM MIDI sound systems on typical low-range
sound cards.
In order to output it to your sound card you require DART to be set up. OS/2
Warp 4 uses have it included. It is available for OS/2 Warp 3, but I'm not
certain how you are supposed to get it. The EMX runtime library is also
required.
TiMidity uses GUS patch files as sources for instruments samples. A complete
collection requires about 8MB+ of disk space and is necessary to play MIDIs
randomly download from the Internet. There is a package of two patches and
some test MIDI files so you can determine it the system will work for you
before you have to download all that.
This is distributed as Freeware under the GNU license. The source code is
available, and it is a useful example real-life of how to program using DART.
TiMidity for OS/2 is available at
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~doconno/timidity.html
--
Darwin O'Connor | "The Human Adventure is Only Beginning"
doconno@cc.umanitoba.ca | - Star Trek:TMP
If that's a feature, I'd hate to see the bugs!
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