[Scummvm-devel] Timidity in Scummvm?

[Max Horn]

Hi Yotam,

just to get this clear: You want to work on improved / alternate MIDI emulation, right? Because I don't see how Timidity could replace OPL emulation in general, can it?

On that matter, our current situation is quite bad and confused and convoluted here anyway, this is part of the whole "midi/music driver" mess. We have an adlib "MIDI driver" but that is really based on code specific to SCUMM, and not really generic, and contains SCUMM specific hacks; various engines read "music driver adlib" as "use adlib 'MIDI'", while others use it to enable custom "adlib" code, etc.

So, if we had a "real" soft MIDI emulator, different from (and less CPU hungry than) the current FM OPL based softsynth, that would IMO be a very very good thing.

Cheers,
Max