I need help with midi playback in DSDA Doom 0.25.6

[Heister]

Hello! I compiled an executable from source code DSDA Doom 0.25.6. It works pretty well, but setting "preferred midi player" is not working properly :(

How to fix that?

 

To demonstrate I am attaching a video of this problem 

 

P.S. Sorry for my bad English :/

[plums]

Maybe DSDA Doom doesn't come with any soundfonts? You need a soundfont and then to edit dsda-doom.cfg and add it including full path to snd_soundfont

If you're on Linux this file is at ~/.dsda-doom/dsda-doom.cfg, if you're on Windows I'm not sure but hopefully you can find it, maybe it's in the program directory.

 

Once you do that, Fluidsynth midi playback should work properly.

 

Here's a good soundfont, it's about 50 mb: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G53wKnIBMONgOVx0gCOWrBlJaXsyaKml/view?usp=sharing

If you want a smaller and/or open-source soundfont you can try this one: https://github.com/arbruijn/TimGM6mb/tree/master

 

BTW Any reason why you chose dsda 0.25.6? The latest version is 0.27.5
 

Edited June 17, 2024 by plums

[Heister]

Thank you so much for your answer! Unfortunately, your advice did not help solve the problem :(
I think my problem is how I compiled the executable. I used CMake and Visual Studio. Also I added SDL2 and SDL2 mixer. Maybe I must to add something else to make the music work correctly. But I don't know what files are needed to this.
I am a Windows user :)
I use this version of the DSDA because it has the functions I need that are not in version 0.27.5. 

The only reason why I got into the source code: fix ssg flash glitch and add bright effect for zombieman, when he shoot.

[plums]

Sadly I don't know much about compiling software on Windows. Perhaps you need fluidsynth installed or the source for it?

 

https://www.fluidsynth.org/

https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth

 

The other thing that might work is to set the SDL_SOUNDFONTS environment variable to the full path of your soundfont, and leave the soundfont setting in dsda-doom empty. But this again will need fluidsynth *somewhere* and I don't know if it's included in the SDL2 mixer sources or not.

[Heister]

@plums Even though it didn't work, thank you very much for your help!

[Shepardus]

8 hours ago, Heister said:

Thank you so much for your answer! Unfortunately, your advice did not help solve the problem :(
I think my problem is how I compiled the executable. I used CMake and Visual Studio. Also I added SDL2 and SDL2 mixer. Maybe I must to add something else to make the music work correctly. But I don't know what files are needed to this.
I am a Windows user :)
I use this version of the DSDA because it has the functions I need that are not in version 0.27.5. 

The only reason why I got into the source code: fix ssg flash glitch and add bright effect for zombieman, when he shoot.

You probably don't have the libraries needed to build it with Fluidsynth support. I haven't tried building on Windows (being primarily a Linux user myself), but there's a guide here that may help: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/blob/master/docs/guides/building_on_windows.md

 

If Fluidsynth is working, dsda-doom will use the soundfont specified by snd_soundfont in the config file, and if snd_soundfont is blank, then it will read the SNDFONT lump in dsda-doom.wad.

[Heister]

14 hours ago, Shepardus said:

You probably don't have the libraries needed to build it with Fluidsynth support. I haven't tried building on Windows (being primarily a Linux user myself), but there's a guide here that may help: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/blob/master/docs/guides/building_on_windows.md

 

If Fluidsynth is working, dsda-doom will use the soundfont specified by snd_soundfont in the config file, and if snd_soundfont is blank, then it will read the SNDFONT lump in dsda-doom.wad.

Thanks for the help! I think this manual will be useful to me.