Hi,
I can't see much benefit to a timidity output in Wine - it seems like an awful lot of effort for little return. Very few general purpose Windows applications actually do MIDI output. The exceptions would be: (very) old games; MIDI file players (plenty of UNIX replacements for these) and music production software. No one seriously using music production software is going to want a MIDI output connected to timidity - the audio quality is not good enough, and if they did want to use it I'd imagine the latancy/timeing would not be tight enough.
-- degs
-----Original Message----- From: wine-devel-admin@winehq.com [mailto:wine-devel-admin@winehq.com]On Behalf Of Eric Pouech Sent: 06 June 2002 15:01 To: johane@lysator.liu.se Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: null midi device
I was thinking: Couldn't one use timidity to make a fake midi device that actually produces sound? That would be something.
I thought about it. you need to use timidity 0.20i (the last one from the original author released under LGPL, the next ones are released under GPL). Then, to make it a real midi driver (in terms of Win32 API) which isn't a trivial task (for example, timidity pre-processes the full content of the MIDI file to be played, whilst a standard MIDI driver has to play midi notes on the fly...). I did start looking at that a long time ago, but without real results in so far.
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