Thank you for your help! I really appreciate the timidity advice too. Now exploring MIDI files that don't have to sound like 8-bit Nintendo music anymore, Heather
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Shane Brandes <[email protected]> wrote: > Heather, > > If you want also you can use zynadsubfx or Qsynth to alter your midi > sounds. The first is a really interesting synthesizer that you make > lots of endless tweaks to. The second enables the use of soundfonts > and allows for some processing as the sound as generated such as > reverb etc. Both work with an app called Jack. I use this when I get > tired of timidity. Jack can be a little weird to setup at first, but > is worth it if you can figure that out. I also use Ubuntu 11.04 so > these are all synaptic available packages. > > regards, > > Shane > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Peter Chubb > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> "Heather" == Heather W Reichgott <[email protected]> > writes: > > > > Heather> [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] [1.1 <text/plain; > > Heather> ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] > > > > Heather> I have been using Lilypond for some time, and have used MIDI > > Heather> sequencing software before, too. Back in the early 90s I > > Heather> taught myself Cakewalk Apprentice with MIDI output for my > > Heather> early composition projects. :) But I am a beginner regarding > > Heather> the inner workings of MIDI. I have some beginner questions > > Heather> about soundfonts. > > > > Heather> 1. Is the choice of soundfont a property of the MIDI file > > Heather> itself, or a property of the playback software? (Or both?) I > > > > It's a property of the playback software. MIDI encodes `banks' and > > `programs' within `banks' only. Bank 0 progams have a conventional > > mapping to instruments (the so-called GM instrument set), and this is > > coded at present into Lilypond's MIDI performer, in midi.scm, > > instrument-names-alist. So Lilypond's output is always bank 0, with > > program number dependent on the Staff.midiInstrument setting for each > staff. > > > > This provides maximum portability, so if you give a MIDI file to > > someone else he or she will hear the same instruments you do (although > > the actual sounds may be different, depending on what synthesizer is > > used). > > > > If you want to use different configurations for different performances > > with timidity the simplest way is to use multiple configuration files. > > you could create, for example, a file called pc51.cfg containing only: > > soundfont /usr/share/midi/PC51.sf2 > > then do > > timidity -c pc51.cfg file.midi > > to use it. > > > > Heather> 2. Is there an easy way to see a list of all the instruments > > Heather> in a soundfont and hear samples of the sounds? > > > > You could try something like swami (which I've never used!) > > http://www.swamiproject.org/ > > > > Peter C > > > > -- > > Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT > gelato.unsw.edu.au > > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT > Australia > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > -- Heather W. Reichgott [email protected] 413-535-6645
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