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Hi

I have a problem with timidity. When I explicitly tell timidity to play a midi file, it works ok. Like this

Code:

$timidity midifile.mid

Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192

ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes

Playing midifile.mid

MIDI file: midifile.mid

Format: 1  Tracks: 12  Divisions: 96

Track name: Flute

Track name: Organ

Track name: Harp

Track name: Solo Soprano

Track name: Solo Boy

Track name: Choir

Track name: Strings

Track name: August, 1994

Track name: Alan Chia

Track name: alanchia@post1.com

Track name: http://www.post1.com/~alanchia

channel 16 => 0

channel 17 => 1

channel 18 => 2

channel 19 => 3

channel 20 => 4

channel 21 => 5

channel 22 => 6

(untitled)

But when I start timidity as an ALSA server, it doesn't want to play correctly. The command and the output is like this:

Code:

$timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0 2>&1 &

 Requested buffer size 2048, fragment size 1024

ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 2048, period size 680 bytes

TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode

Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3

I've tried Rosegarden and ScummVM games (Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky). There are some sounds (in Rosegarden you can even recognize the note) but the static noise is making it unable to hear. Rosegarden is saying that it is using 128:0 port and ScummVM is configured to use this as well, but the results are frustrating.

If it were some timidity configuration problems, it wouldn't play midi files "normally", would it?

Can you advise where to look for the problem? I'm using PulseAudio as my sound server.