By Shelagh MantonSomeone has suggested that TiMidity is not up to it when it comes to being a nice midi synth for use with Rosegarden. I investigated ways to improve its sound by using the FluidR3GM.sf2 soundfont which can be found in the package repositories of many distributions these days. TiMidity is ideal for those who do not want to use jackd to set up softsynths such as fluidsynth, QSynth, or the DSSI synth plugins. If you only work in MIDI and have no wish to do audio work maybe the following advice might be your best bet for getting quality sound out of Rosegarden.You will need admin privileges to do the following. When you start up Rosegarden and open an rg file, you may still be disappointed that you don't get sound out of the box.What you need to do is go to Studio → Manage Midi DevicesThere will be a series of midi ports as in the following picture. (Picture depicts the 1.7.x line of Rosegarden.
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09.10 and later have a somewhat different device manager.)These need to be changed to the following.Click on the 14:0 Midi Through Port-0 (duplex) and change to 128:0 TiMidity port 0 (write).Then play the song and hear the music. You might save this as your default studio for new files with Studio ⇒ Save Current Document as Default Studio.SOM/dmm.
SONiVOX EAS Version 1.71 Copy a Soundfont hybrid171kG.sf2 from in 5.25 Floppy Disk. Frequency 11khz - 32khz Using a Creative Sound Blaster GM bank.
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