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Can not install "TiMidity"
Hello audio experts on W7F...
I am trying to install and use TiMidity to convert MIDI files to more of a standard audio format that can then be edited in Audacity.
I have looked in to TiMidity and posted a question about it on the ScummVM forum after I Googled "TiMidity", but I'm not sure if I'll get a response because the ScummVM forum seems to be a gamer's forum site.
I'm beginning to figure that TiMidity is a mythical application that people only talk about using so they sound like experts, and a dummy set of files is out there for downloading to make people like me feel like even more of a dummy than they already do... I've typed the word "TiMidity" so many times now, I'm weary of that capital M in the middle since spell check doesn't recognize it... and if one does a Google search on Timidity, half of the results are on articles about how to overcome shyness.
I have downloaded the newest version of TiMidity... it is version 2.13.2 and it is dated 3/01/2004, and after looking at the files and reading the "SETUP.txt" file which is the "TiMidity++ Installation guide" I still can't quite figure out where to get all of the necessary files to make TiMidity work.
The very first URL that is provided in this installation guide is one of the URLs to download a very necessary file... but http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/html/default.htm is a dead URL, so it seems that it would be nearly impossible to configure TiMidity without this first necessary "Eawpatch" file.
There is an email address included in this installation guide <iz@onicos.co.jp> but it is to a Japanese email address so I'm not sure how successful I will be at getting any advice from the person who wrote this installation guide to begin with, especially since it seems that one must find so many files from across the internet to make TiMidity run.
Based on experience, can someone out there tell me how to make Timidity work and how to gather the necessary files to make it work... or better yet, is there a way that I could somehow get the files from someone out there that may have already gathered them to make TiMidity run?
All I'm trying to do is to use TiMidity to convert MIDI files to another audio format that can be edited in Audacity.
Or is there another app out there that can convert MIDI to anything else that can be recognized my Audacity?
I sure appreciate it...
Thanks,
digiday