From kde-devel  Thu Jul 10 20:34:13 2003
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:34:13 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: timidity dependency
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Magnus Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2003 11:25, Russell Miller wrote:
> 
>>1.)  KMidi requires Timidity to run.
> 
> 
> Why is that? I'm a bit curious here. Shouldn't a small MIDI player be
> able to output directly to a hardware MIDI interface, without any
> software synthesizers? 

Yes, I think that that is: "Kmid"

> The only thing I've been using small MIDI
> players for (under Windows) is to try out my hardware configuration
> (Did I connect all those MIDI-cables correctly, etc.?), and to quickly
> listen through some songs someone sent me.
> 
> It would be nice if KMidi could use Timidity if present, but IMHO it
> should be able to run without it, using a hardware MIDI interface.

You can (at least theoretically) set up TiMIDIty++ to work instead of 
hardware so that it would work with Kmid.

--
JRT


 
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