[Discuss] audio -- timidity

[lconrad at laymusic.org (Laura Conrad)]

>>>>> "dan" == dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> writes:

    dan> i'm running fedora 31 on a lenevo thinkpad.

    dan> a release or two ago, i had trouble getting any sound out of
    dan> timidity playing my midi files.  one day, after doing a dnf
    dan> update, it suddenly started to work as expected.

    dan> now, the updates i have run so far have not cured the
    dan> problem.

I had a similar problem on ubuntu.  I worked around it by using
musescore, which turns out to be better for my purposes anyway.  But
timidity seems to be working now.  I could probably figure out the date
of it not working and look at what has updated since then if you think
it would help.

I often think it would be nicer if linux sound would Just Work, instead
of being the way it is, but in this case timidity not working did lead
to a noticeable improvement in my workflow.

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It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes
are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound
different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

Thelonius Monk, on being asked how he got a special sound out of the piano