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- TiMidity -- Experimental MIDI to WAVE converter
- Copyright (C) 1995 Tuukka Toivonen <titoivon@snakemail.hut.fi>
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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- You need at least the source distribution ("timidity-0.2d.tar.gz"
- or later). If you don't have any GUS-compatible patches or MIDI files,
- you should also get "timidity-lib-0.1.tar.gz", which contains Dustin
- McCartney's excellent acoustic piano and nylon guitar patches, and some
- sample MIDI files. When you've unpacked both archives, change into the
- directory "timidity" and follow the four easy steps:
-
-
- (1) Check the options in the Makefile and config.h and say:
-
- make
-
- If timidity won't compile, check paths to headers and libraries,
- edit the Makefile appropriately, and try again. Note that you'll
- need ncurses to build the ncurses interface.
-
-
- (2) Adjust audio volume to a comfortable level and say:
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- Linux/FreeBSD:
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- ./timidity -OdM -s22 midi/impromptu.mid
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- HP-UX (you need to be running the HP network audio server):
-
- ./timidity -OdM -s22 -o`hostname` midi/impromptu.mid
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- SunOS:
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- ./timidity -OdM -s22050 midi/impromptu.mid
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- System without audio driver (a 2,335,998-byte, 8-kHz uLaw file
- "output.au" will be generated):
-
- ./timidity -OrMU -s8 -o output.au midi/impromptu.mid
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- You should get a rendition of Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu.
- If not, and you're running Linux, try making noise with some
- other software to make sure your sound hardware is working
- properly. On systems other than Linux, you may need to fiddle
- with the options -- these examples are untested :) Let me know
- what works.
-
- If you get choppy sound, make sure TiMidity is getting enough CPU
- time. You can try using a lower sampling rate (the -s option).
-
-
- (3) When you've got a working executable, you can check the target
- directories in the Makefile, become root if necessary, and say:
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- make install.all
-
- to install the executable, the manual page, and the support files
- (patches and MIDI examples) in the directories specified. If you
- don't wish to install the support files, you can say:
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- make install.bin install.man
-
- to install just the executable and the manual page.
-
-
-
- (4) Now you can play around with the options to get the best sound
- quality.
-
- timidity -h
-
- will get you a brief list. More detailed information is available
- in the manual page. Also, check out the FAQ for pointers to more
- instruments and MIDI files.
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