Play MIDI

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Hi all,

I need to play or preferably convert (i.e. to MP3) old SNG files, which contain voice records. From what I could find, it’s basically a** MIDI **created by synthetiser. I think it was recorded by some ancient VLC player :sarcastic:. I failed so far to play it on anything I could download.

Can you suggest a solution?

Thanks,

Oak

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Hei,

Isn’t .sng files similar to standard .mid, i.e. midi file? In that case you may not convert it to mp3 as it does not contain any audio as such. You may use a midi player to generate audio based on that midi file, and record the stream then produced.

Cheers

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Hi,

unfortunately, I’m not even in the stage I could play it… My understanding is, that I need two things - a player which could play MIDI, and correct SOUNDFONT to play the .SNG files? There’s a lot of stuff on the internet, but I don’t know what to select and use and if I start trying it on my own, I’d finish next spring :’(
So I hope somebody can point me to the useful stuff…

Thanks

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@oakld

Which version of openSUSE are you using? Which desktop KDE or Gnome? 32 or 64 bit? What apps did you try already?

It’s useful to get the basics out of the way first, then I can tell you how I handled midi files (.mid) on openSUSE using Timidity, which should be in the distribution’s OSS repo. However you will need to research/reconcile SNG file versus MID file yourself as I haven’t used SNG on linux.

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BTW timidity is not the only solution for playing midi files, but it would be the simplest as it provides a necessary soft synthesizer, and it’s relatively easy to setup (once you know how).