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General Discussion / Re: Wine, Timidity, ALSA on Linux - HELP!
Christian, thanks for your thoughts. I've moved to a better computer, and it works fine now. But I learned a lot by messing around with the older computer, so it wasn't a waste! The speed, and the RAM were definitely issues, and TiMidity is necessary.
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General Discussion / Re: Wine, Timidity, ALSA on Linux - HELP!
Thanks for your reply. I was suspecting the ram issue.

Noteworthy worked fine on windows on the same machine, so, if you're right, it must be the TiMidity and wine that present the problem: wine must suck up some memory, and I gather TiMidity uses a lot too.

Eventually I'm going to move Linux to a newer machine with much more ram and speed, so it's more likely to work there. If so, I can phase out Windows. In the meantime, Noteworthy can create the music, and I can play the midi files with TiMidity all by itself.

Thanks again.
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General Discussion / Wine, Timidity, ALSA on Linux - HELP!
I am using Puppy Linux (harddrive install) on a Gateway E3110 with 159 M of ram. It has a ES1868 soundcard. Noteworthy is running through Wine. I have TiMidity++ installed. I configured it as a server for ALSA. This is after about 3 weeks unable to get any sound at all, and trying everything I could find and think of. I have googled and searched all kinds of forums, FAQs, manuals etc and finally have no choice but to seek help here.

Finally, with TiMidity++ I get sound, but it is totally distorted, not remotely like music at all. I tried turning down the master volume in ALSA, it reduces the volume, but it is still distorted.

The machine will play other music formats, but not midi, at least not in Noteworthy, which is all I really want to play midis. I also have Finale Printmusic 2006 which will play music with its built-in synth, but the output is all jittery and irregular. It won't do anything at all with TiMidity. I have tried configuring TiMidity according to the various suggestions offered in this and other forums, which is how I finally got "sound" but nothing I've tried helps with the distortion.

I am a very new Linux user. Except for this issue, I love the Puppy distro, it's the only one that has gotten this far with the wine/noteworthy playback. I use noteworthy all the time, but want to get away from Windows, and would love suggestions that will help me get it up and running without all the distortion. Seriously, its really bad, nothing like music at all, except a vague sense of rhythm. Synced Distortion...

Can anyone help?