From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add wildmidi. Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:11:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87oaoskx2z.fsf@mango.localdomain> References: <1424068433-2600-1-git-send-email-iyzsong@gmail.com> <874mqk8ac7.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNqN1-0007Fj-Go for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:11:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNqMy-000340-Rt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:11:55 -0500 Received: from sender1.zohomail.com ([74.201.84.155]:29653) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNqMy-0002yy-IM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:11:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <874mqk8ac7.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > * You mentioned in another thread (subject "Midi") that you hadn't > tested it, and then Andreas reported that it didn't work. We should > get it working before adding it. It doesn't work out of the box because (just like timidity++) it needs to be passed a configuration file that specifies what soundfont to use. We have not yet packaged a soundfont that covers general MIDI instruments. Arguably, it *might* work but it comes without a sane configuration. The question is whether we should add a particular soundfont as an input and pre-configure wildmidi/timidity to use it by default, or if we should leave this decision up to the user. ~~ Ricardo