On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:39:30PM -0700, 4625 wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > > I wonder if FreeBSD's patch-playmidi would make any difference.
> > > It is not port or patch problem, but perfomance (on my opinion).
> > 
> > well, that patch sure looks like it's correcting an inopportune typo.
> > 
> > but I'm not a timidity user.  I'm not going to spend time trying to
> > test that, because it's hard to test regressions if you don't know
> > how it was to begin with ...
> > 
> > > > maybe you don't.  but for me, multichannel audio is more important
> > > > for a desktop than some busted old software midi player.
> 
> Offered by you midi player cost my attention, I hope.
> 
> > > > > But I'm sure, I should boot
> > > > > FreeBSD-4.11 to listen midi files.
> > > > 
> > > > or you could use a less ancient midi player.
> > > Could you advice me one?
> > 
> > I like fluidsynth.
> 
> Thank you. I will see on it. Does fluidsynth support Unison and Utopia sound
> fonts?

$ pkg_info -c fluidsynth
Information for inst:fluidsynth-1.0.8p2

Comment:
SoundFont2 software synthesizer

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