Re: Integrated solution for converting midi output to wav/mp3?

[Hans Aberg]

On 21 May 2007, at 13:34, Jonas Nyström wrote:

> I've been trying the Goemon cfg (http://www.anime.net/~goemon/ 
> timidity/) ...

Thank you, Jonas!

> but with no success. (A blank wav-file is the closest I've been.  
> Maybe the patch names are wrong, I don't know.)
>
> Can someone give a clue how to get an installation running (I'm  
> interrested in Windows and/or Linux/Ubuntu), with some GeneralMidi  
> sound collection/.cfg?

I got it working on Mac OS X, which has a FreeBSD derived UNIX at the  
bottom (more details on the 'man' pages 'timidity' and  
'timidity.cfg'). The only trick was to edit the configuration file,  
so that timidity finds it. I give an example of a complete UNIX  
console session:
  sudo -s
  cd /usr/local/src/
  mkdir goemon
  cd goemon
# Or use 'ftp' instead:
  wget http://www.anime.net/~goemon/timidity/goemon.tgz
  tar -zxf goemon.tgz
# The following makes 'timidity' to use a copy of goemon.cfg as  
startup file:
  cp goemon.cfg /usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg
  mv goemon /usr/local/lib/timidity/
# Now edit the startup file, so that the sound patches are found; use  
your favorite editor:
  emacs /usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg &
# In timidity.cfg, add the following line at the top and save the  
file, which
# causes timidity to look for sound patches there:
  dir /usr/local/lib/timidity/goemon

When the file has been saved, exit the editor if you so like, and the  
'sudo -s' root.

Then just type
  timidity <midifile>
and it played on my Mac. So the rest probably works. I tried it on  
the following file:
  http://math.su.se/~haberg/SimTest.mid
which is a fractal music example I got from Haskore <http:// 
haskell.org/haskore/>.

  Hans Aberg