Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 I tried Timidity, plugger, and whitekey, but nothing will play. Plugger crashes my browser with '...cannot find /dev/sequencer' and Timidty gives me these kinda errors: No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 74 - this instrument will not be heard No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 35 - this instrument will not be heard The little switch is moving like it is playing, but no sound at all. With whitekey, I get these errors: [omar@localhost whitekey]$ ./whitekey -i /home/omar/tmp/liberty.mid ./whitekey-Linux-2.0.36-egcs-2.91.60-i486-linux: Symbol `cerr' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking 015.... "yamaha/chrom/tubebell.wav" memory shortage or load error (yamaha/chrom/tubebell.wav) [omar@localhost whitekey]$ ./whitekey -i /home/omar/tmp/Ratbtblu.mid ./whitekey-Linux-2.0.36-egcs-2.91.60-i486-linux: Symbol `cerr' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking 001/089 "" undefined instrument (1,1,89) 019.... "yamaha/organ/rockorg.wav" memory shortage or load error (yamaha/organ/rockorg.wav) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted May 8, 2003 Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 Timidity and Kmidi work for me with es1371 but the only instruments are piano-guitar and the play playbacks really suck, very tiny with 3/4 of the sound missing.It's nothing like the sound you get in windows. I assumed it was due to proprietary patch sets in windows that aren't available for linux. Never really pursued it because I don't really care enough to and the kimidi help had a fairly complicated procedure for adding additional patch sets for more instruments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 Thanks for the answer, however disappointing it is. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousematt Posted May 9, 2003 Report Share Posted May 9, 2003 It's not over yet! The reason Kmidi plays so poorly is that it currently only has two instruments - piano and guitar. If you read the KMidi handbook there is a section on downloading and installing additional patchsets for KMidi - Read through it, follow the appropriate links and download the new patchsets (I recommend EAWPATS 12 - its on par with an AWE 128); configure them to play under KMidi (a little fiddly) - and away you go with your midis screaming out of your speakers... Don't be discouraged so easilly - Linux requires a bit of effort but the results are worth it... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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