Re: [Bug-freedink] Bug: no music when Timidity is set to use a soundfont

[Vincent Beers]

You are completely right - FreeDoom seems to have the exact same problem. When I switch to the soundfont, music stops working, but with the Fluid patchset it's fine. This is really annoying, because there are some songs in Cloud Castle that just sound unbearable with some of the samples in Fluid. :(

I get no error messages. I suspect it's just this "lite" version of Timidity not supporting soundfonts. Which is, for me, a pretty big issue, as there's not that many patchsets out there that I know of (nor do I know how to configure it).

Is there any chance that the MIDI library ever gets replaced by something more functional? Or, more easily, is there, perhaps, a commandline flag that lets the system handle the MIDI instead (through a defined port, preferably), so I can offload the music to any other software synth instead?

- DaVince

PS. Thanks for suggesting GNUjump as the test app. It's hilarious.

On 8 August 2011 21:50, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi DaVince,

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Vincent Beers wrote:
> When I change /etc/timidity.cfg to use a soundfont instead of the standard
> Fluid patch set, FreeDink will no longer play music.
>
> My config file looks like this:
>
> dir /home/vincent/sf
> soundfont "The Ultimate Megadrive Soundfont.SF2" order=0
>
> Testing it with command-line timidity works fine. Same goes when I try other
> soundfonts. I'm on 64-bit Fedora 15, with FreeDink version 1.08.20101114.

FreeDink relies on SDL_mixer for the sound, which itself uses a light,
built-in version of timidity, which may explain the difference between
command-line timidity and FreeDink.

- Do you experience the same issue with other games that also rely on
 SDL_mixer for MIDI playing?  A quick search shows that gnujump does,
 check if you can find other ones.

- Do you get any error message if you run it from a terminal?

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