Timidity problems solved

I figured out what’s wrong with my timidity patches. That shrill noise in some of my midis came from a whistle in the drum patches that has been looped in the eawpats config files. Removing the loop setting solved the problem. I think I’ll stick with eawpats since freepats is missing quite a number of [...]

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How to get timidity and pygame co-existing happily on Ubuntu

Now that I’ve figured out how to play midi using pygame on my Nokia 770, I’ve been tearing my hair out the last couple of days trying to make pygame midi work on my Ubuntu box, so that I can do some development with it. I just couldn’t get any sound out my pygame script. [...]

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Midi on my Nokia 770

When I got my Nokia 770, I’ve always wanted to have midi playback. It’s funny that something that came out of Nokia couldn’t play midi files when all their phones could. It has been reported that timidity compiles for the Nokia 770, but the binary that’s floating around on the Web doesn’t work for me, [...]

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