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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

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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