On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Brett McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Disc Magnet <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There some seems to be some MIDI instruments supported by lilypond >> that doesn't seem to be supported by timidity. In such a case, I don't >> get silence output from timidity while plaing the .midi file. For >> example, I was trying the 'string ensemble 2' instrument. The code is: > > The stock sounds that come with Timidity are missing a lot of > instruments (viola is missing also!). I suggest getting a soundfont > (Fluid GM soundfont works well) and using that with Timidity instead. > You just need to update your timidity config to use this. Are you > using Linux? Your distro may even have this soundfont available as a > package (Ubuntu Lucid does), it even provides a config file for > Timidity to use. > > -- Brett
Thanks! This worked smoothly. /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg file even had a line like line this one: source /etc/timidity/fluidr3_gm.cfg which I brought out of comments and it worked. I noticed that just like fluid-soundfont-gm, there's another package called fluid-soundfont-gs. What's the difference between the two? I also noticed a diffference between using 'freepats' (default) and 'fluid3_gm'. With freepaths, the nylon guitar sounds like mono with equal volume in both speakers. With fluid-soundfont-gs, the nylon guitar plays in the right speaker only creating a stereo effect. Is there a way to force a particular instrument to play in both speakers? _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
