LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Help with Timidity

System: Slackware64-current.

I'm trying to get Timidity playing nicely with Audacity, and failing completely!

I've compiled and installed Timidity, along with Fluidsynth and SGM-V2 soundfonts. Timidity, on its own, works fine, and I can play and convert midi files with it.

However, all the instructions I've been able to locate refer to Ubuntu, and many of the configuration files mentioned either don't exist or are in different locations on Slackware. The documentation suggests running Timidity as a daemon rather than from /etc/rc.d/rc.timidity, so to that end, I've added

Code:

timidity -iA

to my desktop startup file.

aconnect -o reports:

Code:

$ aconnect -o

client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]

    0 'Midi Through Port-0'

client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user,pid=7020]

    0 'TiMidity port 0 '

    1 'TiMidity port 1 '

    2 'TiMidity port 2 '

    3 'TiMidity port 3 '

/etc/timidity contains only a timidity.cfg file:

Code:

cat timidity.cfg 

# This is the default configuration file for TiMidity++.

# See timidity.cfg(5) for details.

trysource /etc/timidity/crude.cfg

trysource /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg

trysource /etc/timidity/eawpats.cfg

trysource /etc/timidity/fluid.cfg



dir /usr/share/sounds/soundfonts/

soundfont FluidR3_GM.sf2

soundfont SGM-V2.01.sf2

None of the other cfg files exists (crude.cfg, etc)

If I'm reading the documentation file correctly, the fact that aconnect -o is reporting several timidity ports should mean that I can find these under Audacity, but I can't!

What have I missed or am doing wrong?

TIA,

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Pete