vanbasco on older PCs. 
Ed eccomi ritornato a scrivere un’altra guida su Vanbasco . Questa volta per pc con un po’ di anni alle spalle e belli datati.
Il vostro Umby vi fa risparmiare qualche euro per l’acquisto di un altro portatile.
Volete usare Vanbasco ? Il vostro pc non regge con Jack e Qsynth ?
Non avete paura, ecco i miei consigli 
Per prima cosa chiariamo subito qual’è il problema:
Nella guida precedente per utilizzare vanbasco usavamo due programmi usati to make music education (and Jack Qsynth ) and who have a PC with decent performance has no problems. The others, those with Vecchiotti pc, can use another road that is to Timidity.
Open a terminal and enter the command:
sudo apt-get install timidity
Unfortunately, the program has not its a very nice soundfont, called "freepats" , since we are on Linux and the owner of the pc we are, we change this soundfont with something better.
Potete usare sia PC51f.sf2 e Unison.SF2. Sono tutti e due veramente belli e “abbastanza leggeri”. Io uso Unison.SF
- Scaricare Unison.SF2 o PC51f.sf2 e sistemarli nella cartella adeguata(Comandi sotto)
Attenzione, nella guida precedente sono comparsi spesso commenti di persone che non hanno la cartella sf2 per questa motivo, diamo da terminale sudo mkdir “sudo mkdir /usr/share/sounds/sf2 ” probabilmente il terminale vi darà che la cartella esiste già, quindi tutto apposto, se invece non vi dice nulla, ha creato la nuova cartella)
Per chi vuole usare Unison.SF2
ftp://ftp.personalcopy.net/pub/Unison.sf2.gz
gunzip wget sudo mv Unison.sf2.gz
Unison.sf2 / usr/share/sounds/sf2 /
To who wants to use PC51f.sf2
wget ftp://ftp.personalcopy.net/pub/PC51f.sf2.gz
gunzip PC51f.sf2.gz
PC51f.sf2 sudo mv / usr/share/sounds/sf2 /
As mentioned you can use Unison.SF2 PC51f.sf2 or not both.
- Tell Timidity soundfont to use:
We need to change a configuration file and then use gedit. Open a terminal and type:
sudo gedit / etc / timidity / timidity.cfg
Commented the line (It means to add a hash # in front) " source / etc / timidity / freepats.cfg and add the name of the soundfont you want to use, so that eventually, with our soundfonts for example, the end becomes:
# Disabling Some of the Midi Controls can help with the CPU usage a lot.
# The Same goes to the VLPF, sample anti-aliasing and Such effects as reverb and chorus
# # By default, try to use the instrument patches from freepats:
# source / etc / timidity / soundfonts freepats.cfg
/ usr / share/sounds/sf2/Unison.SF2
Unison.SF2 changed course with the soundfont you like more, among those who have seen the line becomes prima.Quindi soundfont / usr/share/sounds/sf2/PC51f . sf2.
Save, and then restart timidity from terminal:
sudo / etc / init.d / timidity restart
Let's change for Timidity CPU or sound cards are not very efficient. If you feel rumoracci or slowdowns during playback, reopen the file before:
sudo gedit / etc / timidity / timidity.cfg
see that there is a section of things to activate if you have a weak CPU. Sampling, effects, and so on. Try disabling something (remove the "#" line). You can remove all files except those specified by the instructions on the right that is
# # disable resampling
VLPF
disable # disable # disable reverb
chorus
#disable delay
#disable sample anti-aliasing
#disable all Midi Controls
#default to 32 voices with auto reduction
#default sample frequency to 32kHz
#fast decay notes
salvate il file e riavviate Timidity:
sudo /etc/init.d/timidity restart.
Ora la guida sarebbe terminata. Per sicurezza vi posto anche come impostare vanbasco in modo da avere un configurazione ottimale anche di quest’ultimo.
Purtroppo il sito di Vanbasco(www.vanbasco.com/it) è off-line da molto tempo ma lo potete scaricare da questo
link Download file (. Exe), start them with wine by clicking on the left mouse button click Open With.
At this point we follow the installation procedure. If you try to start vanbasco not feel anything but fear not, we continue with the guide.
The last problem is the font of wine, you tell him to use those windows!
download from this site fonts!
The package is unpacked and put in the / etc / fonts, but as usual we think the terminal:
xvjpf fontconfig.tbz sudo tar-C / etc / fonts /
Finally, we must add a file in the register of wine.
- Open a text editor (gedit is fine) and make a copy and paste these lines:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Control Panel \\ Desktop]
"FontSmoothing" = "2"
"FontSmoothingType "= dword: 00000002
" FontSmoothingGamma "= dword: 00000578
" FontSmoothingOrientation "= dword: 00000001
Save the file as: configurazionewine.reg
last thing to do is open the terminal and type the command
regedit
will open a window Click Import and import the registry file configurazionewine.reg
Restart your PC. For security
restart Timidity always from the terminal:
sudo / etc / init.d / timidity restart
Open vanbasco. (Application-> Wine-> Programs-> vanBasco's karaoke player-> vanBasco's karaoke player)
We tell him to use the timidity and then when you appear on the screen all the windows, you have to click the right button on the main and then click Settings.
down on the top and then choose MIDI output device as the first of timidy.
Williams Umberto.
