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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Sound in BL2
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:40:14 +0000

Hi Sindi,

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:26:36 -0500 (EST)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> Oh, so in theory it is possible but in practice difficult? I have a
> VIBRA16 card working with DOS already. No problem, there are two
> non-VIBRA cards available. I can do it the hard way some other time.

It is not difficult if you can get hold of the correct module for the
Vibra16.
As I said, Peanut Linux was able to automatically configure it.


> > A MIDI patch is a small soundfile that is used by Timidity (and
> > others) as if
> > it was a musical instrument. They come as a set, often with the extension
> > .pat ,
> > and with a configuration file to set each .pat file against a MIDI
> > instrument
> > channnel.
> > You have, therefore, a PIANO.PAT, FLUTE.PAT, TROMBONE.PAT and so on.
> >
> > Timidity also comes with a .cfg file that points to the MIDI config
> > file.
> >
> > Without MIDI patches, a MIDI player will be piping total silence to
> > each MIDI
> > channel ... and that is what you will hear: total silence.
>
> Is there a DOS equivalent of these? Maybe the SB16 package came with
> them.

Patches are patches. The CUBIC player for DOS can use the same patches as
Timidity does in Linux. (And you can get Timidity for Win9x and above.)

>
> I have never used CDP.EXE and will try it. The MIDI players I have for
> DOS all sound rather tinny except on the card where you can load wavetable
> sounds into RAM.

Most of them do sound tinny. That is why I like CDP - it uses an Allegro
library for its sound samples (compiled in), the same library used in DOS
games.

Regards,
Ron

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