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

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:37:04 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> Your package uncompressed to a 600K binary, 128 '.pat' files of which the 
> largest were acpiano and acguitar (about 1MB each), and I bet I could 
> delete most of them and still play orchestral music.  One midi file wanted 
> a 'hammond' but settled for something else.  A timidity.cfg which pointed 
> at your patches directory and also gravis.cfg.  And documentation.

   If you really have to limit the number of patches, then you edit 
gravis.cfg to make similar instruments point to a single patch.

> 
> 
> timidity filename.mid   - plays without any need for switches, device 
> names, etc.  Sounds a great deal better than my 71K AWE sound bank .sbk.

    I am not surprised.  

> Apparently it is 128 patches in each directory and probably timidity would 
> work with only a subset.  I don't play music with bowglass, cabasa, 
> atmosphr or even bongo.

   I have used some of those.

> The binary requires only the three basic libc5 files so ought to work in 
> BL2 with libc5 added, but perhaps you could also post the libc6 binary.

   I could, if there is any interest.

> My midi files don't specify the really odd patches,

   Maybe not the MIDIs you have now, but who knows what you might like to 
hear tomorrow.

> though one branddenberg concerto called for marimba and celeste.

    There you go.   :)
 
> I will see if there is some way to specify which patch is used for which 
> track.
  
    Two obvious ways:  edit gravis.cfg, or use a MIDI sequencer to change the 
patch numbers in the MIDI file itself.

Regards,
        Ron

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