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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Timidity in BL3
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:08:53 -0700

Ron Clarke wrote:

> Are there any _good_ collections of patches that can easily be used
> with your timidity binary?

Yes there are. The best free collection I have found goes under the
name "eawpats", but the URL I have for this is no longer to be found. It was
about 23 MB. It was a compendium of several collections. There are others of
varying quality.

I downloaded the eawpats.zip. You are right, these patches do work
with your timidity. I only had to unzip eawpats and edit the
timidity.cfg. Then I moved the patches to the
/usr/local/share/timidity directory (where the old patches were) and
now timidity uses these patches.

I agree with you; these patches sound better than any other free
collection. The acoustic grand piano patch sounds great - it could
pass for a recording of a real piano performance with the right MIDI
file. But the strings/violins sound almost as bad as an OPL3; in other
words, not good.

But I understand that the really, REALLY good ones are very expensive -
there is mention of thousands of dollars for sets that are used by the
recording industry. (Yes, folks ! Those commercial CDs that you enjoy may be
orchestrated, in part, by MIDI tracks !)

Or MODs. I think that there's also some kind of tracker-style software
for Mac that professional musicians use.

Thanks for the link, Ron. I found it very useful.

David




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