Help setting up Timidity?

[Hoodlook]

My cfg looks like this

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dir "C:\timidity"
soundfont 1.sf2

I get into GZDoom and type
timidity_exe "c:/timidity"
and then I restart, I look in the console and it says it can't access "c:/timidity" so I move the timidity folder to my D drive. I get into GZDoom and type
timidity_exe "d:/timidity"
and then I restart, I look in the console and it says it can't access "d:/timidity" so I try typing in
timidity_exe "d:/timidity/timidity.exe"
and then I restart, look in the console and it says "Zdoom requires a special version of Timidity++". I downloaded the same Timidity For ZDoom on the [wiki]TiMidity++[/wiki] wiki page. What am I doing wrong?

[Kappes Buur]

The way I have it set up:

In the GZDoom folder:

• timidity.exe
  timidity.cfg

contents of timidity.cfg:

• soundfont H:\SOUNDFONTS\ChoriumRevA.sf2

or whatever soundfont you use.

contents of zdoom-user.ini file:

• timidity_frequency=22050
  timidity_pipe=90
  timidity_mastervolume=1
  timidity_byteswap=false
  timidity_8bit=false
  timidity_stereo=true
  timidity_reverb=0
  timidity_chorus=0
  timidity_extargs=
  timidity_exe=timidity.exe

[Hoodlook]

The way I have it set up:

In the GZDoom folder:

• timidity.exe
  timidity.cfg

contents of timidity.cfg:

• soundfont H:\SOUNDFONTS\ChoriumRevA.sf2

or whatever soundfont you use.

contents of zdoom-user.ini file:

• timidity_frequency=22050
  timidity_pipe=90
  timidity_mastervolume=1
  timidity_byteswap=false
  timidity_8bit=false
  timidity_stereo=true
  timidity_reverb=0
  timidity_chorus=0
  timidity_extargs=
  timidity_exe=timidity.exe

Tried doing your setup, still says ZDoom requires a special version of Timidity++

[Kappes Buur]

http://zdoom.org/wiki/TiMidity

[wildweasel]

http://zdoom.org/wiki/TiMidity

Except the original poster has already linked to said wiki page and said that he's read it, so clearly either he's missing something or the page is missing something.

[Medicris]

Alternatively, if you're on a Windows system, you have more options available.BASSMIDI Driver (scroll to bottom for links) or Coolsoft VirtualMIDISynth. Timidity is quite a bit more antiquated than either of these, but last I heard is pretty the only other option for Linux users.

I use Kode's BASSMIDI myself. Very user-friendly.[/spoiler]

[Gez]

My cfg looks like this

Code: Select all

dir "C:\timidity"
soundfont 1.sf2

I get into GZDoom and type
timidity_exe "c:/timidity"
and then I restart, I look in the console and it says it can't access "c:/timidity" so I move the timidity folder to my D drive. I get into GZDoom and type
timidity_exe "d:/timidity"
and then I restart, I look in the console and it says it can't access "d:/timidity" so I try typing in
timidity_exe "d:/timidity/timidity.exe"
and then I restart, look in the console and it says "Zdoom requires a special version of Timidity++". I downloaded the same Timidity For ZDoom on the [wiki]TiMidity++[/wiki] wiki page. What am I doing wrong?

ZDoom prints that error message if it cannot find the string "TiMidity Killer" in the timidity executable. (That corresponds to an event it uses to kill the TiMidity process when it needs it to stop playing a song.) Normally it is found at offset 0x9C57E (or 640382 in decimal). If you open your timidity.exe in a hex editor and search it for that string, do you find it?

[Graf Zahl]

That thing has become pointless anyway. The Timidity Killer event is no longer being used so this entire check may be removed, I think.

[Hoodlook]

it is found at offset 0x9C57E (or 640382 in decimal). If you open your timidity.exe in a hex editor and search it for that string, do you find it?

Yup, just opened it up and I could go offset 0x9C57E. Here's a screencap of what it looks like

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[Gez]

Definitely not the same file, then. Odd.

[Hoodlook]

Definitely not the same file, then. Odd.

Perhaps maybe a newer(and broken) version of Timidity For ZDoom was put on the wiki page? Would you mind attaching your copy of timidity.exe? Mine seems to be corrupted or not compatible...even though I got it from the wiki page.

[Gez]

I've just redownloaded the same file linked from the wiki and gotten exactly the same file as the one I have had for years.

I suppose it doesn't hurt much to attach it anyway (just the exe, though, and in 7z, there's an attachment size limit).

Edit: attachment removed.

[randi]

That thing has become pointless anyway. The Timidity Killer event is no longer being used so this entire check may be removed, I think.

It's still useful for identifying that the executable writes to pipes in binary mode. The standard Windows builds write audio data to stdout in ASCII mode, effectively making pipes with them useless.

[Hoodlook]

I've just redownloaded the same file linked from the wiki and gotten exactly the same file as the one I have had for years.

I suppose it doesn't hurt much to attach it anyway (just the exe, though, and in 7z, there's an attachment size limit).

It works!

EDIT: My god...Timidity sounds terrible.