Sound advice sought

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Today, for the first time, I got midi sound out of dosemu
(1.1.99)!  By trial & error -- because I know practically nothing
about midi.

My soundcard (ens1371 chip) does not have a hardware midi
synthesizer. I have sound in the kernel (2.4.20) by means of

   CONFIG_SOUND=y
   CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y

Now if I do

   timidity -ir 3 &

as root, and then as user

   midid -p3 ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi &

I can produce midi sounds from dosemu, playing .mid files through
midi-player programs for DOS, like GSPLAY. I have not yet found a
*game* that can make midi music in this way.

In the above commands, '3' can be any number it seems; but it must
be the same in both commands.

Questions:

-- is this the 'right' way? Or is there a simpler way?
-- is there a correct value for the 'magic number' (3 in the
   example above)?
-- the sound is a bit weird: a bit too slow, and the tempo is
   somehow "wobbly" (the notes don´t seem to arrive
   always exactly at the correct time). Anyway it sounds much
   'snappier' if I just say timidity [somefile].mid outside
   dosemu. Also, if I stop gsplay, there is some 'afterburst' of
   music (a few notes). Is this normal?

Regards, Jan

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