From blu@sac.sfbay.sun.com Wed Mar 18 11:49:25 2009 Received: from sunmail5.uk.sun.com (sunmail5.UK.Sun.COM [129.156.85.165]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2IInO7h027597 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail5.uk.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2IInMtG024888; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:49:23 GMT Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KGP00F05TMBE100@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com ([129.145.155.118]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KGP00APITMADX80@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sac.sfbay.sun.com (sac.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.226.132]) by dm-sfbay-01.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2IInLYc000592; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sac.sfbay.sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2IInKuj027590; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from blu@localhost) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id n2IInK3t027586; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:49:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Utterback Subject: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] To: LSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: milan.cermak@sun.com Message-id: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 Status: RO Content-Length: 3327 I am submitting this fastrack on behalf of Milan Cermak. Binding is patch. the timer is set for 03/25/2009 Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: TiMidity++ 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Milan Cermak 1.3 Date of This Document: 18 March, 2009 4. Technical Description Proposal: Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris Detail: TiMidity++[1] is software synthetizer which reads MIDI files and renders output sound either to file or to sound device. Aside of MIDI files, TiMidity++ can process Amiga module files (MOD) and other similar formats (SMF, MFi). TiMidity++ supports Sun Audio and Open Sound System interfaces. TiMidity++ is currently available in version 2.13.2 released on Oct 3rd, 2004. There are no news about new versions but community is still active and improves the software. In OpenSolaris, Sun Audio drivers do not provide interface to hardware synthetizer. Furthermore, many integrated sound chips available nowadays do not have hardware synthetizer leaving sound rendering to software. On the other hand, synthetized music is still in use, mainly in games. To render a sound from MIDI file, TiMidity++ requires a sound bank (a sound collection of different music instruments). Such sound bank is not part of TiMidity++. Sound banks are usually supplied with sound cards, but are limited in available sounds and instruments. Furthermore, they are delivered under proprietary license. To allow full functionality of TiMidity++ from start, OpenSolaris should provide a sound bank on its own. Two sound banks which are delivered in Debian GNU/Linux were evaluated; one from FreePats project[2] and one from FluidSynth project[3]. There are other sound banks available for free on the internet but it's hard or impossible to find their license. FluidSynth sound bank was chosen because it provides complete General Midi instrument set. The bank has standard format and can be also used by other software (or hardware synthetizer). However, it is quite large (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 directory. Because of usability by other software, the sound bank will be packaged separately. Package will provide necessary configuration files for TiMidity++ to allow usage of the sound bank. FluidSynth[3] is another project providing software synthetizer. In advance, it can use external devices (keyboard) for input. However, it doesn't support other input file than MIDI and does not support Sun Audio interface. Exported Interfaces: SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location timidity Volatile Commandline syntax Documentation Impact: New man pages timidity(1) and timidity_cfg(5). References: [1] http://timidity.sourceforge.net [2] http://freepats.opensrc.org [3] http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac [4] 6670236 TiMiDiTy++ 2.13.2 to be integrated into SFW consolidation 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: sfw 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open From brian.utterback@sun.com Wed Mar 18 11:54:10 2009 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2IIs9hU028006 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2IIs2Fm048029 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:LSARC-ext@sun.com>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:54:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KGP00K2DTU7HF00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:54:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from dm-east-01.east.sun.com ([129.148.9.192]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KGP009CYTU47YD0@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:54:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [129.148.9.177] (sr1-ubur-23.East.Sun.COM [129.148.9.177]) by dm-east-01.east.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2IIs1cJ056380; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:54:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:54:00 -0400 From: Brian Utterback Subject: Re: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] In-reply-to: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> To: Brian Utterback Cc: LSARC-ext@sun.com, Milan.Cermak@sun.com Message-id: <49C14348.7070809@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_FXeu/XL0e7MX8R9rA6fyIg)" X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22pre (X11/20090304) Status: RO Content-Length: 66733 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_FXeu/XL0e7MX8R9rA6fyIg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Please find enclosed the two man pages that go with this project. Brian Utterback wrote: > I am submitting this fastrack on behalf of Milan Cermak. Binding is patch. > the timer is set for 03/25/2009 > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > TiMidity++ > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Milan Cermak > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 18 March, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > Proposal: > > Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris > > Detail: > TiMidity++[1] is software synthetizer which reads MIDI files and renders > output sound either to file or to sound device. Aside of MIDI files, > TiMidity++ can process Amiga module files (MOD) and other similar > formats (SMF, MFi). TiMidity++ supports Sun Audio and Open Sound System > interfaces. > > TiMidity++ is currently available in version 2.13.2 released on > Oct 3rd, 2004. There are no news about new versions but community is > still active and improves the software. > > In OpenSolaris, Sun Audio drivers do not provide interface to hardware > synthetizer. Furthermore, many integrated sound chips available nowadays > do not have hardware synthetizer leaving sound rendering to software. > On the other hand, synthetized music is still in use, mainly in games. > > To render a sound from MIDI file, TiMidity++ requires a sound bank > (a sound collection of different music instruments). Such sound bank > is not part of TiMidity++. > Sound banks are usually supplied with sound cards, but are limited in > available sounds and instruments. Furthermore, they are delivered under > proprietary license. > To allow full functionality of TiMidity++ from start, OpenSolaris should > provide a sound bank on its own. Two sound banks which are delivered in > Debian GNU/Linux were evaluated; one from FreePats project[2] and > one from FluidSynth project[3]. There are other sound banks available > for free on the internet but it's hard or impossible to find their > license. > FluidSynth sound bank was chosen because it provides complete General > Midi instrument set. The bank has standard format and can be also used > by other software (or hardware synthetizer). However, it is quite large > (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 > directory. > Because of usability by other software, the sound bank will be > packaged separately. Package will provide necessary configuration > files for TiMidity++ to allow usage of the sound bank. > > FluidSynth[3] is another project providing software synthetizer. In > advance, it can use external devices (keyboard) for input. However, > it doesn't support other input file than MIDI and does not support > Sun Audio interface. > > Exported Interfaces: > > SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name > SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name > /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location > timidity Volatile Commandline syntax > > Documentation Impact: > > New man pages timidity(1) and timidity_cfg(5). > > References: > > [1] http://timidity.sourceforge.net > [2] http://freepats.opensrc.org > [3] http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac > [4] 6670236 TiMiDiTy++ 2.13.2 to be integrated into SFW consolidation > > > > 6. Resources and Schedule > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: > sfw > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open > -- blu "Murderous organizations have increased in size and scope; they are more daring, they are served by the most terrible weapons offered by modern science, and the world is nowadays threatened by new forces which, if recklessly unchained, may some day wreak universal destruction." - Arthur Griffith, 1898 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom --Boundary_(ID_FXeu/XL0e7MX8R9rA6fyIg) Content-type: text/plain; name=timidity.1.txt Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline; filename=timidity.1.txt User Commands timidity(1) NAME TiMidity++ - MIDI-to-WAVE converter and player SYNOPSIS timidity [options] filename [...] DESCRIPTION TiMidity++ is a converter that converts some of MIDI files (supported formats: Standard MIDI files (*.mid), Recomposer files (*.rcp, *.r36, *.g18, *.g36) and Module files (*.mod)) into formatted audio files (e.g. RIFF WAVE). TiMidity++ uses Gravis Ultrasound-compatible patch files or Soundfonts (*.sfx, *.sf2) to generate digital audio data from MIDI files. The digital audio data generated by TiMidity++ can be stored in a file for processing, or played in real time through an audio device. In real time playing, TiMidity++ can show the lyrics con- tained in KAR or WRD files. FILENAME You can use the following expressions as the filename argu- ment: - Read a MIDI file from standard input. path/filename Read a MIDI file from the specified path on a filesys- tem. dir:directory directory/ Read and play all MIDI files in the specified direc- tory. For example, % timidity some/where/ plays all files in the directory some/where/. Archive File Extract and play the file(s) in the archive. If you want to specify a certain MIDI file in the archive, append # to the archive name. The path after `#' allows the use of the wildcard expressions (case insensitive). You can use escape sequence \xHH, where `HH' is a ASCII number in hexadecimal integer. For example: % timidity file.zip#file.mid Plays file.mid in file.zip 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 1 User Commands timidity(1) % timidity file.lzh#*.mid Plays any files that match the wildcard expression *.mid in file.lzh % timidity file.tgz#* This expression is the same as file.tgz Since these mechanism are contained in TiMidity++ itself, you can use this syntax even in the MS Windows environment. TiMidity++ can handle the following archive formats: tar (*.tar) tar+gzip (*.tar.gz, *.tgz) zip (*.zip) lzh (*.lzh, *.lha) (lh0, lh1, lh2, lh3, lh4, lh5, lh6, lz4, lzs and lz5 are available) Other archives can be expanded if expander command is specified on the compile phase. TiMidity++ will pipe that command. news://news-server[:port]/Message-ID news://news-server[:port]/newsgroup[/first-last] Play the MIDI file in the specified article on the news server. If a newsgroup is specified TiMidity++ plays all MIDI files found in any article posted to that newsgroup. TiMidity++ parses MIME Multi-part messages in case of news://* scheme, extracts MIDI file that was post to that group, or in case of normal file, you can expli- citly handle MIME documents by naming that file with *.mime extension, or prefix that file with mime: The following MIME-types are allowed: uu-encoded file begin is required base64 encoded Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 is required quoted-string Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-string is required 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 2 User Commands timidity(1) Mac BinHex format only HQX format is available http://address ftp://address Play the file specified in the URL. For example: http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/dist/midi/impromptu.mid % timi- dity plays the specified MIDI-file directly from the network. If these expression are used in the *.cfg files, you can even use patch-files (and others) from remote machines. INPUT FILE TiMidity++ can handle the following file formats: .mid, .rmi (Format 0, 1, 2) Standard MIDI File .rcp, .r36, .g18, .g36 (Recomposer formats) Recomposer format which is product for COME ON MUSIC co. .mfi (MFi Version 3 - Melody i-Mode is Japanese local mobile phone .kar (Karaoke format) Displays the lyrics as a Lyric Meta Event message. .mod, mod.* (Module file) .wrd (WRD format) OPTIONS The following command line options are accepted by TiMi- dity++: -A [n][,m](a) --amplification=n --drumpower=m --[no-]volume-compensation Multiplies the master volume by n%. Default value is 70%. Higher amplification makes louder sounds. You can specify the drum power, ratio of drum volume from the other channels. The allowed values of amplifica- tion range from 0 (no sound) to 800. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 3 User Commands timidity(1) Optionally to put `a' character along with -a option, or to use --volume-compensation, instructs TiMidity++ to regularize the volume. You can easily gain dynamic range. For example: -A90 volume 90%, drum power 100%, compensation is off -A,120 volume 70%, drum power 120%, compensation is off -A90,120 volume 90%, drum power 120%, compensation is off -Aa volume 70%, drum power 100%, compensation is on -A90a volume 90%, drum power 100%, compensation is on -A,120a volume 70%, drum power 120%, compensation is on -A90,120a volume 90%, drum power 120%, compensation is on -a, --[no-]anti-alias Turns on antialiasing. Samples are run through a lowpass filter before playing, which reduces aliasing noise at low resampling frequencies. -B n,m, --buffer-fragments=n,m For the Linux/FreeBSD/OSS/ALSA/Windows sound driver, selects the number of buffer fragments in interactive mode. Increasing the number of fragments may reduce choppiness when many processes are running. It will make TiMidity++ seem to respond sluggishly to fast for- ward, rewind, and volume controls, and it will throw the status display off sync. Specify a fragments number of 0 to use the maximum number of fragments available. -C n, --control-ratio=n Sets the ratio of sampling and control frequencies. This determines how often envelopes are recalculated -- small ratios yield better quality but use more CPU time. -c file, --config-file=file Reads an extra configuration file. -D n, --drum-channel=n 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 4 User Commands timidity(1) Marks channel as a drum channel. If channel is nega- tive, channel -n is marked as an instrumental channel. If n is 0, all channels are marked as instrumental. -d dir, --interface-path=dir Specifies the directory containing installed dynamic-link interface modules. -E mode, --ext=mode Set TiMidity++ extend modes. The following modes are available (capitalized switch means disable this feature): w/W, --[no-]mod-wheel Enable/disable modulation controlling. p/P, --[no-]portamento Enable/disable portamento controlling. v/V, --[no-]vibrato Enable/disable NRPM vibration. s/S, --[no-]ch-pressure Enable/disable channel pressure controlling. e/E, --[no-]mod-envelope Enable/disable modulation envelope controlling. t/T, --[no-]trace-text-meta Enable/disable tracing all Text Meta Events. o/O, --[no-]overlap-voice Accept/reject pronouncing multiple same notes. z/Z, --[no-]temper-control Enable/disable MIDI Tuning Standard temperament controlling. mHH, --default-mid=HH Sets the manufacturer ID to HH (where HH are two hex-digits). HH values of GS/gs, XG/xg or GM/gm are understood as 41, 43 and 7e respectively. MHH, --system-mid=HH Sets the system manufacturer ID to HH (where HH are two hex-digits). In this option, the manufacuture ID is set unchangable. Manufacuture ID from the input file would be ignored. bn, --default-bank=n 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 5 User Commands timidity(1) Use tone bank n as the default. Bn, --force-bank=n Sets the bank number of all channels to n. in[/m], --default-program=n[/m] Use the program number as the default instrument. Any Program Change events in MIDI files will over- ride this option. If n is followed by /m the default program number of the channel m is specified by n. In[/m], --force-program=n[/m] Similar to -Ei but this ignores all program changes. F args For effects. See below. In args option, you can specify following effect options: delay=(d|l|r|b)[,msec], --delay=(d|l|r|b)[,msec] Sets delay type. d, 0 Disabled delay effect. l, 1 Left delay. r, 2 Right delay. b, 3 Swap left & right. Optional msec is the delay time. chorus=(d|n|s)[,level], --chorus=(d|n|s)[,level] d, 0 Disable this effect. n, 1 Enable MIDI chorus effect control. s, 2 Surround sound, chorus detuned to a lesser degree (default). The optional parameter level specifies the chorus level 0 to 127. --reverb=(d|n|g|f|G)[,level] reverb=(d|n|g|f|G)[,level], d, 0 Disable MIDI reverb effect control. n, 1 Enable MIDI reverb effect control. This effect is only available in stereo. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 6 User Commands timidity(1) g, 2 Global reverb effect. f, 3 Freeverb MIDI reverb effect control (default). G, 4 Global freeverb effect. The optional parameter level specifies the reverb level 0 to 127. vlpf=(d|c|m), --voice-lpf=(d|c|m) d, 0 Disable LPF effect. c, 1 Chamberlin resonant LPF (12dB/oct) (default). m, 2 Moog resonant low-pass VCF (24dB/oct) ns=n, --noise-shaping=n Enable the n th degree noiseshaping filter. The distortion at decay stage is improved, but the noise on human auditory feeling increases because it shifts to a high fre- quency. In case of 8-bit linear encoding, valid values of n are in the interval from 0 (min) to 4 (max). Default value is 4. In case of 16-bit linear encoding, valid values of n are in the interval from 0 to 4. According to the value, it works as follow- ing. Default value is 4. 0 No noise shaping. 1 Traditional noise shaping. 2 Overdrive-like soft-clipping + new noise shaping. 3 Tube-amplifier-like soft-clipping + new noise shaping. 4 New noise shaping. resamp=(d|l|c|L|n|g), --resample=(d|l|c|L|n|g) d, 0 No interpolation. l, 1 Linear interpolation. c, 2 Cubic spline interpolation. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 7 User Commands timidity(1) L, 3 Lagrange method. n, 4 Newton polynomial interpolation. g, 5 Modified Gauss effect (default). This option affects the behavior of -N option. -e, --evil Make TiMidity++ evil. For the Win32 version, this increases the task priority by one. It can give better playback when you switch tasks at the expense of slow- ing all other tasks down. -F, --[no-]fast-panning Turns on fast panning to accommodate MIDI pieces that expect panning adjustments to affect notes that are already playing. Some files that don't expect this have a habit of flipping balance rapidly between left and right, which can cause severe popping when the -F flag is used. In the current version of TiMidity++ this option is a toggle. -f, --[no-]fast-decay Toggles fast envelopes. This option makes TiMidity++ faster but the release time of the notes are shortened. -g sec, --spectrogram=sec Open the Sound-Spectrogram window. This option is activated if the system has support for the X Window System. -H n, --force-keysig=n Specify the number of key signature. MIDI file is per- formed with transposition to the key of the number of sharp (when n is positive) or flat (when n is nega- tive). Valid values of n are in the interval from -7 to 7. For example, if n is 1, MIDI file with any tonality will be performed transposing to 1 flat (i.e., F major or D minor). Therefore, it is convenient to use for the accompaniment when practicing a musical instrument by the tonality which is easy to perform. -h, --help Show the help message. -i mode, --interface=mode --realtime-priority=n --sequencer-ports=n Selects the user interfaces from the compiled-in 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 8 User Commands timidity(1) alternatives. mode must be begun with one of the sup- ported interface identifiers. Run TiMidity++ with the -h option to see a list. For ALSA sequencer interface, optionally to use --realtime-priority, set the realtime priority by n, and to use --sequencer-ports, set the number of opened sequencer ports. Default value is 4. The following identifiers may be available: -id dumb interface -in ncurses interface -is S-Lang interface -ia X Athena Widget interface -ik Tcl/Tk interface -im Motif interface -iT vt100 interface -ie Emacs interface (use ``M-x timidity'' in Emacs) -ii skin interface Environment variable TIMIDITY_SKIN must be set to the path of the skin data (compressed data are also supported). -ig GTK+ interface -ir Launch TiMidity++ as MIDI server. -iA Launch TiMidity++ as ALSA sequencer client. -iW Windodws synthesizer interface -iw Windodws GUI interface -iP PortMIDI synthesizer interface -ip UMP interface Interface options Option characters may be added immediately after the interface identifier. The following options are recognized: v, --verbose=n Increases verbosity level. This option is 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 9 User Commands timidity(1) cumulative. q, --quiet=n Decreases verbosity level. This option is cumulative. t, --[no-]trace Toggles trace mode. In trace mode, TiMi- dity++ attempts to display its current state in real time. For the Linux sound driver, this is accomplished through the use of short DMA buffer fragments, which can be tuned via the -B option. l, --[no-]loop Loop playing (some interfaces ignore this option) r, --[no-]random Randomize file list arguments before playing s, --[no-]sort Sort file list arguments before playing D, --[no-]background Daemonize TiMidity++ in background (for alsaseq only) -j, --[no-]realtime-load Enable the loading of patch files during play. -K n, --adjust-key=n Adjusts key (i.e., transposes the song) by n half tones. Ranges from -24 to 24. -k msec, --voice-queue=msec Specify audio queue time limit to reduce voices. If the remaining audio buffer is less than msec mil- liseconds, TiMidity++ tries to kill some voices. This feature makes it possible to play complicated MIDI files on slow CPUs. Setting msec to zero tells TiMi- dity++ to never remove any voices. -L path, --patch-path=path Adds path to the library path. Patch, configuration, and MIDI files are searched along this path. Direc- tories added last will be searched first. Note that the current directory is always searched first before the library path. -M name, --pcm-file=name TiMidity++ can play a PCM file instead of a MIDI file. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 10 User Commands timidity(1) If ``auto'' is specified, TiMidity++ tries to open foo.mid.wav or foo.mid.aiff when playing foo.mid. If ``none'' is specified, this feature is disabled. Oth- erwise just plays name. -m msec, --decay-time=msec Modify envelope volume decay time. msec is the minimum number of milliseconds to sustain a sustained note. -m0 Disable sustain ramping, causes constant volume sustains (default). -m1 Effectively behaves as if all sustains are ignored, volume ramping is the same as normal stage 3. -m3000 A note at full volume will decay for 3 seconds once it begins to be sustained (assuming the regu- lar stage 3 rate would not cause it to decay even longer). Softer notes will of course die sooner. -N n, --interpolation=n Sets interpolation parameter. This option depends on the -EFresamp option's value. cspline, lagrange Toggles 4-point linear interpolation (default is on). newton n point interpolation using Newton polynomials. n must be an odd number from 1 to 57. gauss n+1 point modified Gauss interpolation. Ranges 0 (disable) to 34 (max), default to 25. In either way, linear interpolation is used if audio queue < 99%. -O mode, --output-mode=mode --flac-verify --flac-padding=n --flac-complevel=n --oggflac --speex-quality=n --speex-vbr --speex-abr=n --speex-vad --speex-dtx --speex-complexity=n 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 11 User Commands timidity(1) --speex-nframes=n Selects the output mode from the compiled-in alterna- tives. mode must begin with one of the supported out- put mode identifiers. Run TiMidity++ with the -h option to see the list. Special in Ogg FLAC output mode, verifying generated data (will be a bit slower), the size of header padding (default is 4096), the compression level (0 to 8) (default is 5), and enabling OggFLAC stream can be specified by --flac-verify, --flac-padding, --flac-complevel and --oggflac options respectively. Special in Ogg Speex output mode, the compression qual- ity (0 to 10) (default is 8), Enabling VBR output, ena- bling ABR output and setting the ratio to n, enabling VAD (voice activity detection), enabling DTX (discon- tinuous transmission), the encoding complexity (0 to 10) (default is 3), and frames in a single Ogg packet (0 to 10) (default is 1) can be specified by --speex-quality, --speex-vbr, --speex-abr, --speex-vad, --speex-dtx, --speex-complexity and --speex-nframes options respectively. The following identifiers are available in all ver- sions: -Od Outputs via audio device (default) -Os Output to ALSA -Or Generate raw waveform data. All format options are supported. Common formats include: -OrU u-Law -Or1sl 16-bit signed linear PCM -Or8ul 8-bit unsigned linear PCM -Ou Generate Sun Audio (au) data -Oa Generate AIFF data -Ow Generate RIFF WAVE format output. If output is directed to a non-seekable file, or if TiMidity++ is interrupted before closing the file, the file header will contain 0xffffffff in the RIFF and data block length fields. The popular sound conversion utility sox is able to read such mal- formed files, so you can pipe data directly to sox for on-the-fly conversion to other formats. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 12 User Commands timidity(1) -Ol List MIDI events -OM MOD -> MIDI conversion -Oe EsounD -Op PortAudio -Oj JACK -OR aRts -OA Alib -Ov Ogg Vorbis -OF Ogg FLAC -OS Ogg Speex -OO libdao Format options Option characters may be added immediately after the mode identifier to change the output format. The following options are recognized: S, --output-stereo Stereo M, --output-mono Monophonic s, --output-signed Signed output u, --output-unsigned Unsigned output 1, --output-16bit 16-bit sample width 2, --output-24bit 24-bit sample width 8, --output-8bit 8-bit sample width l, --output-linear Linear encoding U, --output-ulaw 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 13 User Commands timidity(1) u-Law (8-bit) encoding A, --output-alaw A-Law encoding x, --[no-]output-swab Byte-swapped output Note that some options have no effect on some modes. For example, you cannot generate a byte-swapped RIFF WAVE file, or force uLaw output on a Linux PCM device. -o file, --output-file=file Place output on file, which may be a file, device, or HP-UX audio server, depending on the output mode selected with the -O option. The special filename `-' causes output to be placed on stdout. -P file, --patch-file=file Use patch file for all programs. -p [n](a) --polyphony=n --[no-]polyphony-reduction Sets polyphony (maximum number of simultaneous voices) to n. Optionally to put `a' character along with -p option, or to use --polyphony-reduction, instructs TiMidity++ to enable automatic polyphony reduction algorithm. -Q n[,...](t) --mute=n[,...] --temper-mute=n[,...] Cause channel n to be quiet. n can carry out package specification by `,'. If n is 0, all channels are turned off. Continuously, specifying -n, channel n is turned back on. On the other hand, to put `t' character after -Q option or to use --temper-mute describes temperament mute. This mutes channels of specific temperament type n. For preset temperament, n can range 0 to 3. For user-defined temperament, n can range 4 to 7. -q sec/n, --audio-buffer=sec/n Specify audio buffer in seconds. sec maximum size of buffer, n percentage filled at the beginning (default is 5.0/100) (size of 100% equals the whole device buffer size). -R msec Enables Pseudo Reverb Mode. It sets every instrument's 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 14 User Commands timidity(1) release to msec ms. If msec is 0, msec is set to 800 (default). -S n, --cache-size=n Sets the re-sample cache size to n bytes. If n equals 0 any sample caches are disabled. The default value of n is 2097152 (2MB). -s freq, --sampling-freq=freq Sets the resampling frequency (Hz or kHz). Not all sound devices are capable of all frequencies -- an approximate frequency may be selected, depending on the implementation. -T n, --adjust-tempo=n Adjust tempo to n%; 120 play MOD files with an NTSC Amiga's timing. -t code, --output-charset=code Sets output coding of Japanese text. Possible values of code are: auto determined by the LANG environment variable. ascii Translates non-ASCII code to period. nocnv No conversion. 1251 Convert from windows-1251 to koi8-r. euc Outputs EUC (Japan) coding. jis Outputs JIS coding. sjis Outputs SJIS coding. -U, --[no-]unload-instruments Unload all instruments from memory between MIDI files. This can reduce memory requirements when playing many files in succession. -V power, --volume-curve=power Set the power of volume curve. The total amplification becomes volume^power. 0 (default) uses the regular tables. Any non-zero value causes all midi to use the new user defined velocity/volume/expression curve (linear: 1, ideal: ~1.661, GS: ~2). -v, --version Show the version string 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 15 User Commands timidity(1) -W mode, --wrd=mode Play WRD file. Allowed values of mode are: x X Window System mode w Windows console mode t TTY mode d Dumb mode (outputs WRD events directory) - do not trace WRD R[opts] Sets WRD options: a1=b1,a2=b2,... Sets the WRD options. an is the name of option and bn is the value. d=n Emulates timing (@WAIT, @WMODE) bugs of the original MIMPI player. The emulation levels are: -WRd=0 do not emulate any bugs of MIMPI -WRd=1 only emulate some bugs (default) -WRd=2 emulate all known bugs F=file Use file as WRD file only no file matching *.wrd is found. f=file Uses file as WRD file. WRD mode must also use trace mode (option -i?t) or the timing of the WRD events will be terrible. -w mode, --rcpcv-dll=mode Extended mode for MS Windows. The following options are available: -w r Use rcpcv.dll to play RCP/R36 files. -w R Do not use rcpcv.dll (default). 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 16 User Commands timidity(1) -x str, --config-string=str Configure TiMidity++ with str. The format of str is the same as timidity.cfg. For example: -x'bank 0\n0 violin.pat' Sets the instrument number 0 to violin. Character `\' (Ascii 0x5c) in the str is treated as escape character like in C literals. For example \n is treated as carriage return. -Z file, --freq-table=file Cause the table of frequencies to be read from file. This is useful to define a tuning different from 12-equal temperament. If ``pure'' is specified, TiMi- dity++ plays in trial pure intonation. -Zpure[n(m)], --pure-intonation=[n(m)] Play in trial pure intonation by Key Signature meta-event in the MIDI file. You can specify the initial keysig by hand, in case the MIDI file does not contains the meta-event. Optionally, n is the number of key signature. In case of sharp, n is positive. In case of flat, n is negative. Valid values of n are in the interval from -7 to 7. In case of minor mode, you should put `m' character along with -Zpure option. --module=n Simulate behavior of specific synthesizer module as much as possible. For the moment, the value of n defined is as follows: 0 TiMidity++ Default 1 Roland SC-55 2 Roland SC-88 3 Roland SC-88Pro 4 Roland SC-8850 5-15 Reserved for GS family 16 YAMAHA MU-50 17 YAMAHA MU-80 18 YAMAHA MU-90 19 YAMAHA MU-100 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 17 User Commands timidity(1) 20-31 Reserved for XG family 32 SoundBlaster Live! 33 SoundBlaster Audigy 34-111 Reserved for other synthesizer modules 112 TiMidity++ Special 1 113-126 Reserved for TiMidity++ specification purposes 127 TiMidity++ Debug SEE ALSO lsmidiprog(1), mididump(1), patinfo(1), sf2text(1), wav2pat(1), timidity.cfg(5) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Masanao Izumo Copyright (C) 1995 Tuukka Toivonen The original version was developed by Tuukka Toivonen until the release of TiMidity-0.2i. His development was discontinued because of his being busy with work. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later ver- sion. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be use- ful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied war- ranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR- POSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Bos- ton, MA 02111-1307 USA AVAILABILITY The latest release is available on the TiMidity++ Page, URL http://www.timidity.jp/ 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 18 User Commands timidity(1) BUGS Eats more CPU time than a small CPU-time-eating animal. This man page was translated from Japanese to English by me with poor English skill :-) AUTHORS Version 0.2i and earlier: Tuukka Toivonen Vincent Pagel Takashi Iwai Davide Moretti Chi Ming HUNG Riccardo Facchetti TiMidity++: IZUMO Masanao HARADA Tomokazu YAMATE Keiichirou KIRYU Masaki AOKI Daisuke MATSUMOTO Shoji KOYANAGI Masaaki IMAI Kunihiko NOGAMI Takaya WATANABE Takanori TAKEKAWA Hiroshi NAGANO Daisuke KINOSHITA kosuke SHIGEMURA Norikatsu YAMAHATA Isaku ARAI Yoshishige Glenn Trigg Tim Allen Michael Haardt Eric A. Welsh Paolo Bonzini KIMOTO Masahiko IWAI Takashi Saito SATO Kentaro TAMUKI Shoichi URABE Shohei SUENAGA Keishi SUZUKI Koji (titles omitted and an order different) and other many people sends information and bug-fix codes. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 19 User Commands timidity(1) The English version of this man page was written by NAGANO Daisuke . Now, TAMUKI Shoichi and URABE Shohei are maintaining the man page. If you have any comments or suggestions or complaints :) about this man page, please tell us it. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 20 --Boundary_(ID_FXeu/XL0e7MX8R9rA6fyIg) Content-type: text/plain; name=timidity.cfg.5.txt Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline; filename=timidity.cfg.5.txt Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) NAME timidity.cfg - configure file of TiMidity++ DESCRIPTION The file timidity.cfg describes the runtime environments of timidity(1): that are the path of sound font, instruments configurations or else. TiMidity++ looks for the configuration file timidity.cfg at startup, before processing any options. If it can't be accessed, and the library path is changed with a -L option on the command line, then the default file will be sought again along the new library path after processing all options, unless another configuration file was specified with the -c option. Configuration files define the mapping of MIDI programs to instrument files. Multiple files may be specified, and statements in later ones will override earlier ones. VARIABLE When alphanumeric and/or underscore `_' characters continue after dollar sign `$', it is considered that the string is a variable and the configuration file is processed, it is transposed to another string. The variable name can also be written with an inside parenthesis, in order to separate from a following character. For example: $variable ${variable} # same as $variable For the moment, the command which newly defines variables is not prepared. The undifined variable is transposed to null string. The variable defined as a regular variable is the next only one. $basedir Expresses the directory where the configuration file exists. By the command which mainly specifies a path, it uses in order to specify the relative path from a setting file. When a blank may be included in $basedir, it is neces- sary to bundle with "". For example: In /usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg dir $basedir/inst # source /usr/local/share/timidity/inst SYNTAX The following statements can be used in a configuration file: 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 1 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) dir directory [...] Adds directory to the search path in the same manner as the -L command line option. Archive file are also allowed. For example: dir /usr/local/share/timidity/inst/foo.zip# bank 0 0 bar.pat 1 baz.pat 2 zoo.pat At first, dir specifies the archive name (followed by `#') for the path of patch files same as directory name (in this case, /usr/local/share/timidity/inst/foo.zip). TiMidity++ recognize the path is an archive file if the expression has the last character `#', and also read the files contained in this archive file. In previous example the patch files bar.pat, baz.pat and zoo.pat contained in the foo.zip are also installed. source file [...] Reads another configuration file, then continues pro- cessing the current one. progbase number Sets and displays the tone number from number to number+128. If progbase 1 are specified, tone numbers that follow are set and displayed as the numbers from 1 to 128. bank [MapID1] number Selects the tone bank to modify. Patch mappings that follow will affect this tone bank. You can indicate specific map as a target, by specifing any ofthe fol- lowing to MapID1: gm2, sc55, sc88, sc88pro, sc8850, xg and xgsfx64. drumset [MapID2] number Selects the drum set to modify. Patch mappings that follow will affect this drum set. You can indicate specific map as a target, by specifing any ofthe fol- lowing to MapID2: gm2drum, sc55drum, sc88drum, sc88prodrum, sc8850drum, xgdrum and xgsfx126. number file [options] number %font file bank prog [key] [options] number %sample file [options] Specifies that the MIDI program number in the current tone bank or drum set should be played using the patch file. If file is SoundFont, the specific instrument with bank, prog, and key is taken out by the format of 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 2 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) number %font. If file is linear AIFF or WAV sample data, the MIDI program number is specified by the for- mat of number %sample. Options may be any of the fol- lowing: amp=amplification Amplifies the instrument's volume by amplification percent. If no value is specified, one will be automatically determined whenever the instrument is loaded. note=note Specifies a fixed MIDI note to use when playing the instrument. If note is 0, the instrument will be played at whatever note the Note On event triggering it has. For percussion instruments, if no value is specified in the configuration file, the default in the patch file will be used. pan=panning Sets the instrument's default panning. panning may be left, right, center, or an integer between -100 and 100, designating full left and full right respectively. If no value is specified, the default in the patch file will be used. Note that panning controls in MIDI files will override this value. tune=tuning[,...] Adjust the instrument's root frequency. tune=1 causes 1 half tone higher. Since a fraction is available for tuning, it is possible to do fine tuning such as tune=-0.2. When two or more sample data is contained, the arguments after the second can specify different value respectively. rate=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's ADSR rate. Each value may be an integer between 0 and 255. When you set only sustain rate, 6 GUS/hrpschrd.pat rate=::60 is available. When you set only attack time fasten, 6 GUS/hrpschrd.pat rate=255 is available. When two or more sample data is contained, the arguments after the second can specify different value respectively. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 3 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) offset=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's ADSR offset. Each value may be an integer between 0 and 255. The format is same as rate=. keep={loop|env} By default, percussion instruments have their loop and envelope information stripped. Strangely shaped envelopes are removed automatically from melodic instruments as well. keep= can be used to prevent stripping loop or envelope data. For example, the Short and Long Whistle percussion instruments (General Midi numbers 71 and 72) need to have `keep=loop keep=env' specified in the con- figuration file. strip={loop|env|tail} Force removal of loop or envelope information from all patches in the instrument, or strip the tail, i.e. all data after the loop. Some third-party instruments have garbage after the loop, as evi- denced by a clicking noise whenever the instrument is played, so adding the strip=tail option will markedly improve sound quality. tremolo=sweep_increment:control_ratio:depth[,...] Sets the instrument's tremolo. Each value may be an integer between 0 and 255. The format is simi- lar to rate=. sweep_increment is the time until tremolo is started. control_ratio is the rate changing amplification. depth is the depth chang- ing amplification. vibrato=sweep_increment:phase_increment:depth[,...] Sets the instrument's vibrato. Each value may be an integer between 0 and 255. The format is simi- lar to rate=. sweep_increment is the time until vibrato is started. phase_increment is the rate changing frequency. depth is the depth changing frequency. sclnote=note[,...] Sets the instrument's standard note for scale tun- ing. For example, sclnote=60 causes the center note C to be standard note for scale tuning. When two or more sample data is contained, the argu- ments after the second can specify different value respectively. scltune=tune[,...] Sets the instrument's scale tuning factor in cents. For example, scltune=50 causes the half 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 4 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) tone steps as 50 cents. When two or more sample data is contained, the arguments after the second can specify different value respectively. comm=comment Specifies the comment comment. modrate=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] modoffset=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's behavior of change of modu- lation envelope. The format and values are funda- mentally same as volume envelope. Except for some SoundFonts, even if it specifies only the option, nothing happens. envkeyf=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's volume envelope key follow. Based on note=60, it changes envelope time accord- ing to note. The unit is +-cent/key. For exam- ple, envkeyf=100 means that the attack time will double when it goes up by 1 octave. The format is similar to rate=. The parameter of decay and sus- tain may be preset in some SoundFont. envvelf=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's volume envelope velocity follow. Based on velocity=64, it changes envelope time according to velocity. The unit is +-cent/velocity. For example, envvelf=100 means that the attack time will 38 times at velo- city=127. The format is similar to rate=. In the future, the specification of this option may be changed. modkeyf=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's modulation envelope key fol- low. Based on note=60, it changes envelope time according to note. The unit is +-cent/key. For example, modkeyf=100 means that the attack time will double when it goes up by 1 octave. The for- mat is similar to rate=. The parameter of decay and sustain may be preset in some SoundFont. modvelf=attack:decay:sustain:release1:release2:release3[,...] Sets the instrument's modulation envelope velocity follow. Based on velocity=64, it changes envelope time according to velocity. The unit is +-cent/velocity. For example, modvelf=100 means that the attack time will 38 times at velo- city=127. The format is similar to rate=. In the future, the specification of this option may be changed. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 5 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) trempitch=num[,...] Sets the instrument's depth of changing pitch according to tremolo. The effect itself is same as vibrato, it uses to operate in another system. The unit is +-cent. The format is similar to rate=. tremfc=num[,...] Sets the instrument's depth of changing cutoff frequency according to tremolo. It can express the so-called glowl effect. The unit, etc. are same as trempitch=. modpitch=num[,...] Sets the instrument's depth of changing pitch according to modulation envelope. It can tem- porarily express raising pitch only for the attack stage. The unit, etc. are same as trempitch=. modfc=num[,...] Sets the instrument's depth of changing cutoff frequency according to modulation envelope. The unit, etc. are same as trempitch=. fc=num[,...] Sets the instrument's standard of cutoff fre- quency. The unit is Hz. The format is similar to rate=. q=num[,...] Sets the instrument's Q (resonance). The unit is cB. The format is similar to rate=. fckeyf=num Sets the instrument's filter key follow. Based on note=60, it change cutoff frequency according to note. The unit is +-cent/key. For example, fckeyf=100 means that it changes same as pitch. fcvelf=num Sets the instrument's filter velocity follow. Based on velocity=127, it changes cutoff frequency according to velocity. The unit is +-cent. In SoundFont, -2400 is set up as a characteristic value. qvelf=num Sets the instrument's resonance velocity follow. Based on velocity=0, it changes resonance accord- ing to velocity. The unit is +-cB. default file 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 6 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) When MIDI program appears, which is not mapped to instrument file, this file is pronounced as a substi- tute. map MapID1 from-bank from-prog to-bank to-prog The existing tone is assigned as a tone of GS/XG each map. gm2, sc55, sc88, sc88pro, sc8850, xg and xgsfx64 can be specified to be MapID1. map MapID2 from-drumset from-keynote to-drumset to-keynote The existing drum is assigned as a drum of GS/XG each map. gm2drum, sc55drum, sc88drum, sc88prodrum, sc8850drum, xgdrum and xgsfx126 can be specified to be MapID2. soundfont file [options] Read the whole SoundFont. options may be any of the following: order=number Sets the order of searching for instrument. When order=0, first read SoundFont, and then search for insufficient samples in GUS/patch. When order=1, after reading GUS/patch, search for SoundFont. amp=amplification Sets the amplification of the whole SoundFont as amplification%. If the value is not specified, it is set by 100%. cutoff=number Specifies whether LPF in SoundFont is enable (1) or disable (0). If the value is not specified, it is considered to be enable. reso=number Specifies whether resonance in SoundFont is enable (1) or disable (0). If the value is not speci- fied, it is considered to be enable. remove Cancels the target SoundFont from the memory. font exclude bank [prog [key]] Suppresses searching for SoundFont of bank, prog. If the sample is drumset, bank is 128, drumset is prog, keynum is key. font order number bank [prog [key]] Sets the order of searching for instrument individu- ally. The format is same as font exclude. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 7 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) The following statements are available only latest TiMi- dity++. #extension altassign program1 program2 ... Sets the alternate assign for drum set. For example, if you want to pronounce Hi-Hat cymbals (note number 42, 44 and 46) in the drumset 0 exclusively to each others, specify: drumset 0 altassign 42 44 46 Note that alternate assign of drumset 0 is used by default. #extension comm program comment Specifies the comment comment for the tone number pro- gram. These comments are displayed in the indicator line when TiMidity++ is booted with option -int, -iTt. #extension timeout program second Specifies the time-out value of the program. If any notes played with the tone number program are suspended more than second seconds, TiMidity++ kills the notes. #extension copydrumset drumset Copies all settings of the drumset to the current drum- set. #extension copybank bank Copies all settings of the bank to the current bank. #extension copymap to-MapID from-MapID Copies all settings of the banks defined for the map from-MapID to the map to-MapID. #extension HTTPproxy hostname:port Specifies the proxy of the HTTP protocol. hostname and port are of the proxy host's. #extension FTPproxy hostname:port Specifies the proxy of the FTP protocol. Same as HTTP. #extension mailaddr your-mail-address Specifies user's mail address. This address is sent to the FTP server if TiMidity++ access any file via FTP. #extension opt option Sets the value of boot-time options. #extension undef progno Undefines the tone progno of current tone bank. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 8 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) #extension legato progno {0|1} Specifies whether legato is enable (1) or disable (0) on progno. #extension level progno tva_level Sets the standard value of changing amplification when processing Drum Instrument TVA Level of NRPN. Unless Drum Instrument TVA Level is specified at playing, the amplification is not influenced. progno can carry out package specification by `,' and/or [start]-[end]. If start and end are omitted, they are assumed to be 0 and 127 respectively. #extension damper progno {0|1} Specifies whether redamper and half-damper are enable (1) or disable (0) on progno. #extension playnote progno note Sets the frequency of pronounce to note. If the fre- quency of pronounce is specified by GS SysEx Play Note, the pitch is changed appropriately according to the value. progno can carry out package specification by `,' and/or [start]-[end]. If start and end are omit- ted, they are assumed to be 0 and 127 respectively. For example: drumset 0 #extension playnote -37,39,44-46,55-60 #extension delaysend progno level #extension chorussend progno level #extension reverbsend progno level Sets the send level when drum part effect is enable. All initial value are 127. If one of delay, chorus and reverb is at least set up, the effect which is not set as the tone will become the initial value 0. progno can carry out package specification by `,' and/or [start]-[end]. If start and end are omitted, they are assumed to be 0 and 127 respectively. #extension rnddelay progno msec For every pronunciation, it is random and less than a maximum of msec delay. The distribution of random value is pink noise (1/f fluctuation) rather than a white noise. These #extension statements are beginning with character `#' that is the comment flag of old TiMidity (version 0.2i or earlier). So these statements are treated as comment line. The latest TiMidity++ treats #extension as white-space. So you can omit it. 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 9 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) If any file-name expression ended with character `|' (Ascii 0x7c), the file-name is treated as command and outputs of the command are also examined as arguments of statements. source command| causes the output of command becomes the argument of source. It is convenient to choose settings of TiMidity++ according to environment. In addition, if a space enters on the way like command |, it will be divided at the time of setting file reading, and will no longer be regarded as a command. This function is applicable to all the places that can specify a file name. timidity 'cat fild.mid|' will read from the output of cat fild.mid. FILES /etc/timidity.cfg /usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg SEE ALSO timidity(1), lsmidiprog(1), mididump(1), patinfo(1), sf2text(1), wav2pat(1) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Masanao Izumo Copyright (C) 1995 Tuukka Toivonen The original version was developed by Tuukka Toivonen until the release of TiMidity-0.2i. His development was discontinued because of his being busy with work. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later ver- sion. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be use- ful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied war- ranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR- POSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Bos- ton, MA 02111-1307 USA AVAILABILITY The latest release is available on the TiMidity++ Page, 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 10 Standards, Environments, and Macros timidity.cfg(5) URL http://www.timidity.jp/ 2.13.0 Last change: April 25 2004 11 --Boundary_(ID_FXeu/XL0e7MX8R9rA6fyIg)-- From carlsonj@phorcys.east.sun.com Wed Mar 18 12:01:10 2009 Received: from sunmail4.singapore.sun.com (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2IJ1922007736 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail4.singapore.sun.com (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2IJ16QO012550; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:01:07 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KGP00507U5PN100@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phorcys.east.sun.com ([129.148.174.143]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KGP00LGPU52ZF70@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phorcys.east.sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phorcys.east.sun.com (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2IJ0TXs003414; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:00:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from carlsonj@localhost) by phorcys.east.sun.com (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3/Submit) id n2IJ0T8k003411; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:00:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:00:29 -0400 From: James Carlson Subject: Re: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] In-reply-to: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> To: Brian Utterback Cc: LSARC-ext@sun.com, Milan.Cermak@sun.com Message-id: <18881.17613.370040.905508@gargle.gargle.HOWL> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.3.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> Status: RO Content-Length: 1088 Brian Utterback writes: > Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris How retro. I remember porting that to AIX 4.x long ago. > (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 [...] > Exported Interfaces: > > SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name > SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name > /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location > timidity Volatile Commandline syntax The /usr/share/sounds/sf2 directory is an exported interface for this project. It's unclear what the stability is intended to be. (Perhaps 'Uncommitted' for the directory path itself, and 'Volatile' for the list of files contained in there?) I'm not sure "Volatile" is right for the command line. At least _some_ of the command line syntax is either Committed or Uncommitted, or nobody's going to be able to use this effectively. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 From John.Fischer@sun.com Wed Mar 18 13:41:32 2009 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2IKfWDO000354 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2IKfTjn055463 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:LSARC-ext@sun.com>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:41:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KGP00H01YT8WE00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brmea-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.98.43]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KGP00BGYYT7GU40@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fe-amer-10.sun.com ([192.18.109.80]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n2IKfVmB016045 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:41:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-5.01 64bit (built Feb 19 2009)) id <0KGP00200YG0KA00@mail-amer.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:41:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([unknown] [76.20.56.47]) by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-5.01 64bit (built Feb 19 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0KGP00JMCYT494C0@mail-amer.sun.com>; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:41:29 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:40:36 -0700 From: John Fischer Subject: Re: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] In-reply-to: <49C14348.7070809@sun.com> Sender: John.Fischer@sun.com To: Brian Utterback Cc: Brian Utterback , LSARC-ext@sun.com, Milan.Cermak@sun.com Reply-to: John.Fischer@sun.com Message-id: <49C15C44.2010501@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> <49C14348.7070809@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20090211) Status: RO Content-Length: 4574 Brian, The man pages need to have the Attributes section as well. Something like: ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- butes: ____________________________________________________________ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |_____________________________|_____________________________| | Availability | SUNWgnome-file-mgr | |_____________________________|_____________________________| | Interface stability | Volatile | |_____________________________|_____________________________| Thanks, John Brian Utterback wrote: > Please find enclosed the two man pages that go with this project. > > Brian Utterback wrote: >> I am submitting this fastrack on behalf of Milan Cermak. Binding is >> patch. the timer is set for 03/25/2009 >> >> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >> 1. Introduction >> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >> TiMidity++ >> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >> Author: Milan Cermak >> 1.3 Date of This Document: >> 18 March, 2009 >> 4. Technical Description >> Proposal: >> >> Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris >> >> Detail: >> TiMidity++[1] is software synthetizer which reads MIDI files and >> renders >> output sound either to file or to sound device. Aside of MIDI files, >> TiMidity++ can process Amiga module files (MOD) and other similar >> formats (SMF, MFi). TiMidity++ supports Sun Audio and Open Sound >> System >> interfaces. >> >> TiMidity++ is currently available in version 2.13.2 released on >> Oct 3rd, 2004. There are no news about new versions but community is >> still active and improves the software. >> >> In OpenSolaris, Sun Audio drivers do not provide interface to >> hardware >> synthetizer. Furthermore, many integrated sound chips available >> nowadays >> do not have hardware synthetizer leaving sound rendering to software. >> On the other hand, synthetized music is still in use, mainly in >> games. >> >> To render a sound from MIDI file, TiMidity++ requires a sound bank >> (a sound collection of different music instruments). Such sound bank >> is not part of TiMidity++. >> Sound banks are usually supplied with sound cards, but are limited in >> available sounds and instruments. Furthermore, they are delivered >> under >> proprietary license. >> To allow full functionality of TiMidity++ from start, OpenSolaris >> should >> provide a sound bank on its own. Two sound banks which are >> delivered in >> Debian GNU/Linux were evaluated; one from FreePats project[2] and >> one from FluidSynth project[3]. There are other sound banks available >> for free on the internet but it's hard or impossible to find their >> license. >> FluidSynth sound bank was chosen because it provides complete General >> Midi instrument set. The bank has standard format and can be also >> used >> by other software (or hardware synthetizer). However, it is quite >> large >> (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 >> directory. >> Because of usability by other software, the sound bank will be >> packaged separately. Package will provide necessary configuration >> files for TiMidity++ to allow usage of the sound bank. >> >> FluidSynth[3] is another project providing software synthetizer. In >> advance, it can use external devices (keyboard) for input. However, >> it doesn't support other input file than MIDI and does not support >> Sun Audio interface. >> >> Exported Interfaces: >> >> SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name >> SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name >> /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location >> timidity Volatile Commandline syntax >> >> Documentation Impact: >> >> New man pages timidity(1) and timidity_cfg(5). >> >> References: >> >> [1] http://timidity.sourceforge.net >> [2] http://freepats.opensrc.org >> [3] http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac >> [4] 6670236 TiMiDiTy++ 2.13.2 to be integrated into SFW consolidation >> >> >> >> 6. Resources and Schedule >> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >> sfw >> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack >> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >> > From gdamore@sun.com Fri Mar 20 17:23:11 2009 Received: from sunmail4.singapore.sun.com (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2L0NBL0010091 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail4.singapore.sun.com (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2L0N3FS002012 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:LSARC-ext@sun.com>; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:23:10 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KGT00D03YEJER00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:23:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sca-es-mail-1.sun.com ([192.18.43.132]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KGT000PQYEIYS50@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:23:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n2L0N60a003647 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-5.01 64bit (built Feb 19 2009)) id <0KGT00400Y1I8K00@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@Sun.COM (ORCPT LSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.251.11] ([unknown] [76.93.15.33]) by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-5.01 64bit (built Feb 19 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0KGT005IEYEH6380@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@Sun.COM (ORCPT LSARC-ext@Sun.COM); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:23:05 -0700 From: "Garrett D'Amore" Subject: LSARC 2009/180 Timidiity++ Sender: Garrett.Damore@sun.com To: LSARC-ext@sun.com Message-id: <49C43369.1070301@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081201) Status: RO Content-Length: 728 Just a quick note on this case as an FYI: 1) Project Boomer (PSARC 2008/318) has no plans to deliver support for *hardware* MIDI devices. Indeed, in many ways, such devices have gone out of fashion. We don't expect any other project will be delivering such support either. 2) Depending on when this project integrates, we'd encourage the project team to build the software to use the OSS API. Boomer (which exports the OSS API) is currently planned for integration in b115. If there are any questions about this, or if the project team would like to get access to pre-release builds of the Boomer software, please let us know. A reply back to either me, or audio-oss-ext@sun.com will do the job. -- Garrett From brian.utterback@sun.com Mon Mar 30 09:16:13 2009 Received: from sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail3mpk.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.52]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2UGGD6A022297 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2UGG5rE004805 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:LSARC-ext@sun.com>; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KHB00B0ZUJ0YL00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:16:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from dm-east-01.east.sun.com ([129.148.9.192]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KHB000OYUIXR2B0@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:16:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [129.148.9.169] (sr1-ubur-15.East.Sun.COM [129.148.9.169]) by dm-east-01.east.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2UGG7g2042290; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:16:06 -0400 From: Brian Utterback Subject: Re: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] In-reply-to: <49C15C44.2010501@sun.com> To: LSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: Milan.Cermak@sun.com, Margot Miller Message-id: <49D0F046.9060807@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> <49C14348.7070809@sun.com> <49C15C44.2010501@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22pre (X11/20090304) Status: RO Content-Length: 5422 The timer has expired, and there were comments from two ARC members and one LSARC member. The minutes from the March 24 LSARC meeting indicate that there were no open issues and to let it timeout, which it did on March 25th. Are there any more comments, or can I close this as approved? John Fischer wrote: > Brian, > > The man pages need to have the Attributes section as well. > Something like: > > > ATTRIBUTES > See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- > butes: > > ____________________________________________________________ > | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | > |_____________________________|_____________________________| > | Availability | SUNWgnome-file-mgr | > |_____________________________|_____________________________| > | Interface stability | Volatile | > |_____________________________|_____________________________| > > Thanks, > > John > > Brian Utterback wrote: >> Please find enclosed the two man pages that go with this project. >> >> Brian Utterback wrote: >>> I am submitting this fastrack on behalf of Milan Cermak. Binding is >>> patch. the timer is set for 03/25/2009 >>> >>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >>> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >>> 1. Introduction >>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >>> TiMidity++ >>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >>> Author: Milan Cermak >>> 1.3 Date of This Document: >>> 18 March, 2009 >>> 4. Technical Description >>> Proposal: >>> >>> Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris >>> >>> Detail: >>> TiMidity++[1] is software synthetizer which reads MIDI files and >>> renders >>> output sound either to file or to sound device. Aside of MIDI files, >>> TiMidity++ can process Amiga module files (MOD) and other similar >>> formats (SMF, MFi). TiMidity++ supports Sun Audio and Open Sound >>> System >>> interfaces. >>> >>> TiMidity++ is currently available in version 2.13.2 released on >>> Oct 3rd, 2004. There are no news about new versions but community is >>> still active and improves the software. >>> >>> In OpenSolaris, Sun Audio drivers do not provide interface to >>> hardware >>> synthetizer. Furthermore, many integrated sound chips available >>> nowadays >>> do not have hardware synthetizer leaving sound rendering to >>> software. >>> On the other hand, synthetized music is still in use, mainly in >>> games. >>> >>> To render a sound from MIDI file, TiMidity++ requires a sound bank >>> (a sound collection of different music instruments). Such sound bank >>> is not part of TiMidity++. >>> Sound banks are usually supplied with sound cards, but are >>> limited in >>> available sounds and instruments. Furthermore, they are delivered >>> under >>> proprietary license. >>> To allow full functionality of TiMidity++ from start, OpenSolaris >>> should >>> provide a sound bank on its own. Two sound banks which are >>> delivered in >>> Debian GNU/Linux were evaluated; one from FreePats project[2] and >>> one from FluidSynth project[3]. There are other sound banks >>> available >>> for free on the internet but it's hard or impossible to find their >>> license. >>> FluidSynth sound bank was chosen because it provides complete >>> General >>> Midi instrument set. The bank has standard format and can be also >>> used >>> by other software (or hardware synthetizer). However, it is quite >>> large >>> (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 >>> directory. >>> Because of usability by other software, the sound bank will be >>> packaged separately. Package will provide necessary configuration >>> files for TiMidity++ to allow usage of the sound bank. >>> >>> FluidSynth[3] is another project providing software synthetizer. In >>> advance, it can use external devices (keyboard) for input. However, >>> it doesn't support other input file than MIDI and does not support >>> Sun Audio interface. >>> >>> Exported Interfaces: >>> >>> SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name >>> SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name >>> /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location >>> timidity Volatile Commandline syntax >>> >>> Documentation Impact: >>> >>> New man pages timidity(1) and timidity_cfg(5). >>> >>> References: >>> >>> [1] http://timidity.sourceforge.net >>> [2] http://freepats.opensrc.org >>> [3] http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac >>> [4] 6670236 TiMiDiTy++ 2.13.2 to be integrated into SFW consolidation >>> >>> >>> >>> 6. Resources and Schedule >>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >>> sfw >>> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack >>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >>> >> -- blu "You would think that spies would have to be light sleepers, but that isn't true. For instance, James Bond once slept through an earthquake. That's right, he was shaken but not stirred." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom From margot.miller@sun.com Mon Mar 30 10:48:27 2009 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2UHmQmm029969 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n2UHmNov022026; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:48:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KHB00K11YSKIK00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:48:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com ([129.146.17.63]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KHB00GJJYSHLY40@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:48:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [10.7.250.251] (punchin-client-10-7-250-251.SFBay.Sun.COM [10.7.250.251]) by jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2UHm8xS639563; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:43:38 -0700 From: Margot Miller Subject: Re: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] In-reply-to: <49D0F046.9060807@sun.com> To: Brian Utterback Cc: LSARC-ext@sun.com, Milan.Cermak@sun.com Message-id: <49D104CA.40605@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> <49C14348.7070809@sun.com> <49C15C44.2010501@sun.com> <49D0F046.9060807@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b1 (X11/20070115) Status: RO Content-Length: 6030 Hey Brian, Can you update the proposal in the ARC directory, specifically the interface table, with James Carlson's feedback: "The /usr/share/sounds/sf2 directory is an exported interface for this project. It's unclear what the stability is intended to be. (Perhaps 'Uncommitted' for the directory path itself, and 'Volatile' for the list of files contained in there?) I'm not sure "Volatile" is right for the command line. At least _some_ of the command line syntax is either Committed or Uncommitted, or nobody's going to be able to use this effectively." Also, timidity.cfg should be in the interface table. The man pages also need to be updated with John Fischer's below comment. I think those are the outstanding issues and when those are addressed this can be closed. Thanks Margot Brian Utterback wrote: > The timer has expired, and there were comments from two ARC members > and one LSARC member. The minutes from the March 24 LSARC meeting > indicate that there were no open issues and to let it timeout, which > it did on March 25th. Are there any more comments, or can I close this > as approved? > > John Fischer wrote: >> Brian, >> >> The man pages need to have the Attributes section as well. >> Something like: >> >> >> ATTRIBUTES >> See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- >> butes: >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | >> |_____________________________|_____________________________| >> | Availability | SUNWgnome-file-mgr | >> |_____________________________|_____________________________| >> | Interface stability | Volatile | >> |_____________________________|_____________________________| >> >> Thanks, >> >> John >> >> Brian Utterback wrote: >>> Please find enclosed the two man pages that go with this project. >>> >>> Brian Utterback wrote: >>>> I am submitting this fastrack on behalf of Milan Cermak. Binding is >>>> patch. the timer is set for 03/25/2009 >>>> >>>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >>>> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >>>> 1. Introduction >>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >>>> TiMidity++ >>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >>>> Author: Milan Cermak >>>> 1.3 Date of This Document: >>>> 18 March, 2009 >>>> 4. Technical Description >>>> Proposal: >>>> >>>> Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris >>>> >>>> Detail: >>>> TiMidity++[1] is software synthetizer which reads MIDI files >>>> and renders >>>> output sound either to file or to sound device. Aside of MIDI >>>> files, >>>> TiMidity++ can process Amiga module files (MOD) and other similar >>>> formats (SMF, MFi). TiMidity++ supports Sun Audio and Open >>>> Sound System >>>> interfaces. >>>> >>>> TiMidity++ is currently available in version 2.13.2 released on >>>> Oct 3rd, 2004. There are no news about new versions but >>>> community is >>>> still active and improves the software. >>>> >>>> In OpenSolaris, Sun Audio drivers do not provide interface to >>>> hardware >>>> synthetizer. Furthermore, many integrated sound chips available >>>> nowadays >>>> do not have hardware synthetizer leaving sound rendering to >>>> software. >>>> On the other hand, synthetized music is still in use, mainly in >>>> games. >>>> >>>> To render a sound from MIDI file, TiMidity++ requires a sound bank >>>> (a sound collection of different music instruments). Such sound >>>> bank >>>> is not part of TiMidity++. >>>> Sound banks are usually supplied with sound cards, but are >>>> limited in >>>> available sounds and instruments. Furthermore, they are >>>> delivered under >>>> proprietary license. >>>> To allow full functionality of TiMidity++ from start, >>>> OpenSolaris should >>>> provide a sound bank on its own. Two sound banks which are >>>> delivered in >>>> Debian GNU/Linux were evaluated; one from FreePats project[2] and >>>> one from FluidSynth project[3]. There are other sound banks >>>> available >>>> for free on the internet but it's hard or impossible to find their >>>> license. >>>> FluidSynth sound bank was chosen because it provides complete >>>> General >>>> Midi instrument set. The bank has standard format and can be >>>> also used >>>> by other software (or hardware synthetizer). However, it is >>>> quite large >>>> (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 >>>> directory. >>>> Because of usability by other software, the sound bank will be >>>> packaged separately. Package will provide necessary configuration >>>> files for TiMidity++ to allow usage of the sound bank. >>>> >>>> FluidSynth[3] is another project providing software >>>> synthetizer. In >>>> advance, it can use external devices (keyboard) for input. >>>> However, >>>> it doesn't support other input file than MIDI and does not support >>>> Sun Audio interface. >>>> >>>> Exported Interfaces: >>>> >>>> SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name >>>> SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name >>>> /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location >>>> timidity Volatile Commandline syntax >>>> >>>> Documentation Impact: >>>> >>>> New man pages timidity(1) and timidity_cfg(5). >>>> >>>> References: >>>> >>>> [1] http://timidity.sourceforge.net >>>> [2] http://freepats.opensrc.org >>>> [3] http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac >>>> [4] 6670236 TiMiDiTy++ 2.13.2 to be integrated into SFW consolidation >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 6. Resources and Schedule >>>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >>>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >>>> sfw >>>> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack >>>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >>>> >>> > From brian.utterback@sun.com Wed Apr 22 06:33:40 2009 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3MDXdoZ015725 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n3MDXccK028840 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:LSARC-ext@sun.com>; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0KII005238C35800@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dm-east-01.east.sun.com ([129.148.9.192]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0KII0046S8C1WW00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for LSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT LSARC-ext@sun.com); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.148.9.36] (sr1-ubur-12.East.Sun.COM [129.148.9.36]) by dm-east-01.east.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id n3MDXa21050300; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:33:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:33:30 -0400 From: Brian Utterback Subject: Re: TiMidity++ [LSARC/2009/180 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2009] In-reply-to: <49D0F046.9060807@sun.com> To: LSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: Milan.Cermak@sun.com, Margot Miller Message-id: <49EF1CAA.2050905@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <200903181849.n2IInK3t027586@sac.sfbay.sun.com> <49C14348.7070809@sun.com> <49C15C44.2010501@sun.com> <49D0F046.9060807@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22pre (X11/20090304) Status: RO Content-Length: 5698 The timer has expired and now all issues really have been resolved. I am closing this as approved. Brian Utterback wrote: > The timer has expired, and there were comments from two ARC members and > one LSARC member. The minutes from the March 24 LSARC meeting indicate > that there were no open issues and to let it timeout, which it did on > March 25th. Are there any more comments, or can I close this as approved? > > John Fischer wrote: >> Brian, >> >> The man pages need to have the Attributes section as well. >> Something like: >> >> >> ATTRIBUTES >> See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- >> butes: >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | >> |_____________________________|_____________________________| >> | Availability | SUNWgnome-file-mgr | >> |_____________________________|_____________________________| >> | Interface stability | Volatile | >> |_____________________________|_____________________________| >> >> Thanks, >> >> John >> >> Brian Utterback wrote: >>> Please find enclosed the two man pages that go with this project. >>> >>> Brian Utterback wrote: >>>> I am submitting this fastrack on behalf of Milan Cermak. Binding is >>>> patch. the timer is set for 03/25/2009 >>>> >>>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >>>> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >>>> 1. Introduction >>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >>>> TiMidity++ >>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >>>> Author: Milan Cermak >>>> 1.3 Date of This Document: >>>> 18 March, 2009 >>>> 4. Technical Description >>>> Proposal: >>>> >>>> Integrate TiMidity++ into OpenSolaris >>>> >>>> Detail: >>>> TiMidity++[1] is software synthetizer which reads MIDI files and >>>> renders >>>> output sound either to file or to sound device. Aside of MIDI >>>> files, >>>> TiMidity++ can process Amiga module files (MOD) and other similar >>>> formats (SMF, MFi). TiMidity++ supports Sun Audio and Open Sound >>>> System >>>> interfaces. >>>> >>>> TiMidity++ is currently available in version 2.13.2 released on >>>> Oct 3rd, 2004. There are no news about new versions but >>>> community is >>>> still active and improves the software. >>>> >>>> In OpenSolaris, Sun Audio drivers do not provide interface to >>>> hardware >>>> synthetizer. Furthermore, many integrated sound chips available >>>> nowadays >>>> do not have hardware synthetizer leaving sound rendering to >>>> software. >>>> On the other hand, synthetized music is still in use, mainly in >>>> games. >>>> >>>> To render a sound from MIDI file, TiMidity++ requires a sound bank >>>> (a sound collection of different music instruments). Such sound >>>> bank >>>> is not part of TiMidity++. >>>> Sound banks are usually supplied with sound cards, but are >>>> limited in >>>> available sounds and instruments. Furthermore, they are >>>> delivered under >>>> proprietary license. >>>> To allow full functionality of TiMidity++ from start, >>>> OpenSolaris should >>>> provide a sound bank on its own. Two sound banks which are >>>> delivered in >>>> Debian GNU/Linux were evaluated; one from FreePats project[2] and >>>> one from FluidSynth project[3]. There are other sound banks >>>> available >>>> for free on the internet but it's hard or impossible to find their >>>> license. >>>> FluidSynth sound bank was chosen because it provides complete >>>> General >>>> Midi instrument set. The bank has standard format and can be >>>> also used >>>> by other software (or hardware synthetizer). However, it is >>>> quite large >>>> (about 150 MB). It will be installed to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 >>>> directory. >>>> Because of usability by other software, the sound bank will be >>>> packaged separately. Package will provide necessary configuration >>>> files for TiMidity++ to allow usage of the sound bank. >>>> >>>> FluidSynth[3] is another project providing software synthetizer. In >>>> advance, it can use external devices (keyboard) for input. However, >>>> it doesn't support other input file than MIDI and does not support >>>> Sun Audio interface. >>>> >>>> Exported Interfaces: >>>> >>>> SUNWtimidity Uncommitted Package name >>>> SUNWfluid-soundfont-gm Uncommitted Package name >>>> /usr/bin/timidity Committed Executable location >>>> timidity Volatile Commandline syntax >>>> >>>> Documentation Impact: >>>> >>>> New man pages timidity(1) and timidity_cfg(5). >>>> >>>> References: >>>> >>>> [1] http://timidity.sourceforge.net >>>> [2] http://freepats.opensrc.org >>>> [3] http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac >>>> [4] 6670236 TiMiDiTy++ 2.13.2 to be integrated into SFW consolidation >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 6. Resources and Schedule >>>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >>>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >>>> sfw >>>> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack >>>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >>>> >>> > -- blu "You would think that spies would have to be light sleepers, but that isn't true. 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