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FREEWARE: OS/2 Software MIDI player TiMidity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darwin O'Connor)
Wed May 28 21:39:12 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 28 May 1997 18:10:03 GMT
From: doconnor@autobahn.mb.ca (Darwin O'Connor)
Reply-To: doconnor@autobahn.mb.ca (Darwin O'Connor)
Reply-to: doconnor@autobahn.mb.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 directly 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 5MB+ of disk space and is necessary to play
random MIDIs. 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.
The new release of TiMidity now has both the regular text-mode interface
(or lack of interface) and a PM graphical interface. The PM interface features
a limited playlist capability (to be improved), ability to start, stop and
move the current position to any point in the sound file and the ability
to play wav, avi and any other format supported by MMOS/2.
This is distributed as Freeware under the GNU license. The source code
is available, and it is a useful real-life example of how to use DART.
TiMidity for OS/2 is available at
http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~doconnor/timidity.html <new>
--
Darwin O'Connor | "The Human Adventure is Only Beginning"
doconnor@autobahn.mb.ca | - Star Trek:TMP
If that's a feature, I'd hate to see the bugs!
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