Playing MIDIs?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 00:26, Anne Wilson wrote:
>On Wednesday 19 July 2006 20:17, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> A little addition is that you need the package "awesfx" installed,
>> so as to be able to use sfxload (the OSS version), or asfxload (the
>> Alsa version) to load the soundfonts. If you have the CDROM for the
>> sblive, you should have the soundfonts on that. Mine for my Audigy2
>> soundblaster are in. /audio/common/SFBANK/CT4MGM.SF2.
>
>Where should the soundfonts be copied to?  Do they go in a
> subdirectory of /usr/share/sounds?
>
>Anne

put them anyplace thats convenient for you Anne, and just give sfxload 
the path to whereever it is.  I put that in my rc.local file here IIRC, 
but lemme check...  Yup:

sfxload /usr/music/SoundFonts/CT4MGM.SF2

It works a treat with an Audigy 2.

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