Trevor, I installed CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth and the font bank you mentioned. After setting the CoolSoft as the default synthesizer in Frescobaldi, I did notice a difference in the sound of various instruments when compared with Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, which is my OS's default synthesizer. You and Abraham are correct about the not-so-good quality of the Microsoft default synthesizer.
The reason I kept hearing an unmistakable piano sound is channel 1 of the MIDI player was playing a grand piano chord at just the beginning of every measure, over the acoustic guitar sound playing on channel 2. I simply turned off the channel 1 piano sound using the displayed MIDI mixer, a feature CoolSoft allows the user to enable. The following attached images should reinforce what it is I am describing: MIDI_synth_on_Frescobaldi.jpg <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n188576/MIDI_synth_on_Frescobaldi.jpg> configCoolSoft_VirtualMIDISyth.jpg <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n188576/configCoolSoft_VirtualMIDISyth.jpg> MIDI_Mixer_visible.jpg <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n188576/MIDI_Mixer_visible.jpg> The users of this forum greatly helped me to solve a problem I was trying to solve on my own for over five days. ----- David Landt -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Adding-acoustic-guitar-steel-to-MIDI-tp188538p188576.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
