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

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:07:08 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> The BL3 timidity works in BL2 if I add libc5 (three files).

    That would be right.
 
> I downloaded some music and was missing hammond and britepno for 2 midis.
> The former played anyway (part of the music), the latter piece was silent.

     I could have included patches for those two instruments, but the 
hammond.pat is 588 kb and the britepno.pat is 2.24 MB.


> I was able to symlink to existing files:
> 
> ln -s acpiano.pat britepno.pat  (in the GUS2 directory)

    That should work OK.
 
> I am playing a Beethoven sonata right now on acpiano.  It sounds like a 
> small tinny speaker but I can run cables to the stereo receiver.  The 
> orchestral pieces don't sound as good because the patch files for string 
> and wind instruments are much smaller than the 1MB acpiano.  Can I 
> download separate violin.pat etc?

   Yes.  Let me know if you want any extra .pat files and I will put them up 
on my website.
 
> I should be able to put together a set of about 20 orchestral and symphony 
> band instruments.  Ron, perhaps you could post a smaller timidity-bl3.tgz 
> (binary, cfg, docs) separately from the patch files and people could 
> then separately download your patches or my smaller set or whatever they 
> preferred.

   That should be possible.
 
> Is there some way (as with playmidi -p) to specify the instrument other 
> than symlinking patch files?

    Yes, edit gravis.cfg.

Regards,
         Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
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