I'm trying to get Band in a Box 2006 working through Wine, however I'm having no luck in getting the MIDI output to work. I have Timidity installed, and it shows up several times in the BiaB's MIDI output driver options, but even when selected I get no results. I have a parallel thread running in another forum and so far it has yielded no results. I've also tried following these two guides/wiki's:

http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Using_MIDI#WINE
http://nfs-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/d...n/ch15s10.html

I have timidity installed using an sf2 soundfont, which plays regular midi files fine. The following is my timidify.cfg:

dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpats source timidity.cfg

# This sets up the default patches

source piano+guitar.cfg
source drums.cfg
soundfont soundfont.sf2

I'm starting timidity with the following commands:

#timidity -iA -B2,8 -0s &

which yields:

[1] 6228
marctop:/usr/share/timidity # Requested buffer size 2048, fragment size 1024
ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 7524, period size 3760 bytes
TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3


When I start the play sequence in BiaB the following lines are appended:

Requested buffer size 2048, fragment size 1024
ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 7524, period size 3760 bytes


To me it looks like BiaB is calling to timidity, however, no sound is produced. I read somewhere (I believe it was in Wine's AppDB) that timidity in BiaB don't properly communicate, but some work around IS possible. I'll look for those details and post them here.

Any help at all would be great. Thanks!

read this
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8802/print

the answer might be in the section about ~/.wine/config file

Update!

I seem to have gotten midi working almost perfectly in BiaB. Using some information found on Wine's AppDB, I found that by installing the snd-virmidi module into the kernel (#modprobe snd-virmidi) to get a list of virtual midi ports using "cat /proc/asound/devices" I was able to connect one of the ports labelled "RAW Midi" to one of the ports used by timidity (in my case 14:0 and 128:0 respectively) with the command "aconnect 14:0 128:0" In my app, I then selected "Wine Midi Mapper" as the midi output in my app and voila! I now have sound!

The only issue I'm still having is that the drums aren't playing properly as drums, rather they are being articulated as a piano... I'm not quite sure how all of this works, but if someone would be so kind as to clarify for me and perhaps provide some kind of solution I would be extremely grateful. Thanks!

First of all: congratulations! It's good to know BiaB works in WINE. If you could add your experiences to the WINE database it would make it easier for others. (You could for instance just post the URI of this thread.)

The only issue I'm still having is that the drums aren't playing properly as drums, rather they are being articulated as a piano.
Being used to Screamtracker and Fasttracker I know zilch about MIDI so I don't have a solution: as far as I know BiaB files don't translate 1:1 to "ordinary" MIDI files, so that sounds like a MIDI channel mapping issue. If you know MIDI you probably know what to do :-] (tweak instrument/channel mappings)

piano is channel 1, drums are channel 10, i think if that helps

I'm not really sure how to go about fixing that in the slightest to be honnest. Looks like I have some research to do lol.