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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:02:51 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> >
> >>>    I now have timidity running in BL3 also.  I downloaded and installed
> >>> almost the entire /d1 directory from SW4.0, used a copy of Timidity++
> >>> source, and compiled the whole thing. Compiled with no problems. I added
> >>> the patches and timidity.config from my BL2 setup, and away we went. I
> >>> have MIDIs playing through the SB16 card.
> >>
> >>>     I would offer to make a package for BL3.4, but I don't know how to.
> >>> And in any case, the patches alone will make a BIG download.
> >>
> >> Are the patches larger or smaller than the source code?  How big are 
> >> they?
> >
> >    Up to 20 MB.   I said BIG !
> >
> 
> >     But I could set up a smaller selection, they just wouldn't sound as 
> > good.  say 4 - 7 MB ?
> 
> What instruments are included in the patches?  Could you limit it to just 
> ordinary orchestral instruments (no more than 20 of them)?

    I could, but then it would make so many of the really good MIDIs sound 
awful and as a musician I can't bring myself to do that.
 
> The .sbk and .sf2 files I have contain about 128 'instruments' (marimba, 
> celeste, and many things I never heard of)

    These instruments are used in jazz and also in Latin stuff.

> Could you choose just ONE piano, one harpsichord, four strings, flute, 
> piccolo, trumpet, trombone, horn, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, kettle drums, 
> snare drums (and whatever else I forgot) and make that one patch, or does 
> it not work that way?

    No, it doesn't work like that.  If you don't have a patch for the 
instrument specified in the MIDI, then that track will be silent.

    As it happens, I am currently in the middle of uploading the completed 
package to: http://www.ausreg.com/bl/bl3

    Warning - it is still a big file, even though I have included only one 
128-instrument set of patches, with timidity pre-configured to use those 
patches, but it isn't possible to use timidity properly without them.  File 
size: timidity_bl3.tgz    8595191   (8.2 MB).

    If anyone has the patience to download it, can you tell us if it installs 
properly - I don't have a test-bed version of BL3 anymore.

Regards,
         Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://www.tadpoletunes.com
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