Enabling MIDI Support on MMOS2 with Ksoftseq

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This is procedure that I tried to finally have MIDI support on MMOS2.

The quick steps are:

  • yum install libkai
  • yum install fluidsynth
  • Install kmididec (manually) - [1]
  • Install Ksoftseq (with minstall) - [2]
  • Rename 'FluidR3_GM.sf2' to 'ksoftseq.sf2' and copy it to C:\MMOS2.

Let's go now step by step.

Required Libraries

A simple "yum install libkai fluidsyth" will install the files needed on ArcaOS.

kmididec

kmididec is library that needs to be installed manually.

In my case I unzip the file and put the files on /usr.

  • Copied to .exe to /usr/bin
  • The /lib directory contents to /user/lib
  • The /include directory contents to /user/lib

Ksoftseq

This component needs to be installed with minstall. Unzip the file and inside that directory runs minstall with the command prompt.

Press ENTER to install, and a second ENTER to confirm.

Reboot.

FluidR3_GM.sf2 File

The fluidsynth soundfont is called 'FluidR3_GM.sf2'. You have to rename it to 'ksoftseq.sf2' and then copy it to C:\MMOS2.

Testing

Now you are ready to test your MIDI sound. Go to the MIDI samples, double click a file and see if it produces sound.

You will see in ArcaOS the seconds counter on the buttom of the file, while it is playing.

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