HowTo: Using TiMidity++ to improve your Windows MIDI output

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aria1121
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Never mind about my problem. But hey, you can also open tmsyng, rightclick taskbar icon > Change synthesizer thread priority > highest (may not have much effect on slow computers)
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I'm having some trouble setting this up. I've gotten it to work twice before, but something's not working on my new system.

I drag the FluidR3 GM/GS.sfArk files onto my sfArk shortcut and it automatically uncompresses them, but instead of an exe file it generates a .SF2 file. I tried throwing that in my /timidity folder (along with the config file), and the Timidity++ Driver shows up in my Output Devices options, but I hear no sounds when I use the Test feature or when I run a song.

Thoughts?
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Headphones/speakers not working properly?
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DC64 wrote:Headphones/speakers not working properly?
It works fine when I switch it back to my default output. I think I screwed something up in uncompressing the Fluid files.
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...back to my problem; I downloaded sfArk v2.15 (direct download for Windows here) and am trying right now to unpack the .sfark files with that. 'till now it's going great. I am still waiting untill that progress bar reaches the finish. It's really slow but at least I'm getting finally some progress 'rite now. -EDIT- Yay it finished! I finally got the SF2! At last! :D -EDIT2- And hopefully it was worth the wait... :(

Edit4: SUDDENLY... LATENCY. A LOT OF LATENCY.
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So, wich one of these am i supposed to download that:
- seem like the best one
- no lateness on notes

Edit: I downloaded Timidity++ and yes it is really slow, and theres no damper half the time.

Edit 2: I found out how to make it better! :)
Go to TWSYNTH GUI to prefences, go to synthesizer and change the 500 to 1
(for those who did this before go from 100 to 1)
I know this is like the last steps on making it better on the first post but i am adding a fix myself.
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BTW, why so difficult? Why just not set Gameplay.LoopExtraRollback to lower value? Or will this mess up the twsyng?
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For me if it means i can save space and edit by myself correctly than i am okay,
unless the program is very interconnected to itself then i will do that.
The only reason is i know what has happened and how to back-track myself from a huge mess-up.
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Does anyone know where the soundfont of the Windows (XP or higher) MIDI Wavetable is located? Or a better question; where are is the .CAB of the Plug 'n Play Drivers?
By the way, how can I swap the MIDI output (sound) to other programs except synthesizers? Like to VLC.
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Finally I got Timidity latancy reduced. I run'd it in Compatibility Mode XP SP2 and set it back to 256.
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What is wierd is when i press Timidity++ in Synthesia as my output, i hear a small faint noise (like electric fuzz)
and if i play any song/prevew before that has stoped then i get latency.
When i wait for it to end, (a few seconds later) then i get little to no latency.
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Yeah, then you have to kill twsyng's process and run it again after you've closed Synthesia and chosen the MS Wavetable. Then it goes as normal. :)
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aria1121 wrote:Edit4: SUDDENLY... LATENCY. A LOT OF LATENCY.
Back to this, everytime I start Synthesia, Timidity lags (latency) a lot, while I set the Properties\Synthesizer\Compute_Max_Time_msec of Timidity a lower everytime. What's going wrong?
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Nicholas, there were some problems with the cfg file you posted. Some instruments sound way out of pitch (flute-section). So I used instead a whoule list of soundfont-settings, just
soundfont "Path/Name"
and that solved it.
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Post by aria1121 »

I now understand that some people totally hate the Microsoft Wavetable.
The MSW (for short) operates in 90% of the cases (citation needed) correctly and has no latency, but it sounds way more synthetic, when compared to Timidity using FluidR3GS.

What more is there to complain about the MSW?
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Not shure, but all of a sudden, Timidity++ is not showing up in Synthesia as an output anymore.
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It has been for a bit, what is new for the features?
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