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["Samual Acorn" <sam.acorn AT gmail.com>]

On 05/07/06, Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 02:58:52 -0500
> "Samual Acorn" <sam.acorn AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Timidity does sound much better than awe.  How did you load an .sf2 or
> > > .sbk sound font for timidity, which Ron set up with .pat files?
> >
> > well... from what i read between you and ron he used an old copy of
> > timidity from slackware 4....
>
>     Nope.  I used a relatively new version of the source, and compiled it in 
> BL3.4.
>
> > why dont you download fasttracker or something similar and make music
> > using it rather than using midi?... at least that way other ppl that
> > play your songs will hear them the same way you did when you composed
> > them... could even include vocals and completely custom instruments
> > not found in any gus patch or soundfont....
> >
> > give this song a listen;
> > http://www.modarchive.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi?W/wb_voice.xm
> >
> > if the link doesnt work search for 'world of voices' on www.modarchive.com
> >
> > every instrument in that song (even in the part in the middle that
> > sounds technoish) was custom made from the two artists own voices...
> > something i didnt believe (the techno part anyway) at first till i
> > listened to each sample in fasttracker... you cant do stuff like this
> > with midi...
>
>    Timidity plays .mod files too.  And so does xmp.

it tries to play mods... use gmodplay which uses the modplug engine...
timidity messes up way too much and uses way too much cpu power in
comparison...

> But mods are quite different to MIDI in almost every way.  If you
want to hear MIDIs as >they sound "at source" then they can be
converted to .wav then .mp3.

lets not get her started encoding mp3s... every audio player out there
supports ogg... go there instead...

> Timidity can do the MIDI to wav stuff from the commandline, and bladenc will 
> convert to mp3 (including tags).
> I have done a lot of this in BL2 (some on my website) using some easy 
> scripts, but I haven't yet tried it in BL3.
>
>     I will see if I can get a copy of bladenc (or lame) that runs in BL3.

vorbis! no more mp3s... gah... besides bladeenc always sounds
garbled... lame would be better if you -must- have mp3...


...i give up...


> Regards,
>          Ron
>
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