Re: Graphics & Music

[David Philippi]

On Thursday 05 September 2002 00:11, Matthias Bauer wrote:
> If timidity has a soft-wavetable, no problem at all. And even if not,
> you can restrict yourself to General MIDI and should have a somewhat-ok
> sound on all systems. We could alternatively offer Pingus CD version -
> some time :p

Since I didn't really know what TiMidity++ is, I just looked it up. ;-)
It's a MIDI Player / WAV Converter. You may use it to either play a .mid and 
some other formats directly or convert them to .wav using some Wavetables it 
provides. This means it would be no problem at all to include MIDI in Pingus 
and a simple script converting all .mid --> .wav using TiMidity++ (and 
probably .wav --> .ogg) which should be used by anyone with a bad soundcard.
Since it seems to work unter Win32 I see no problems with this approach. Any 
different opinions?

BTW if sound is really that bad on a cheap soundcard we should also use it to 
convert the .mod files in Pingus.

Bye David