On 10/13/2018 08:14 PM, Ali Corbin wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 3:38 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
I tried timidity:
$ timidity 1.midi Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192 ALSA
pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes Playing
1.midi MIDI file: 1.midi Format: 1 Tracks: 3 Divisions: 384 Sequence:
control track Text: creator: Text: GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 Track name:
:soprano Instrument: choir aahs Track name: :tenor Instrument: choir
aahs No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 52 - this instrument
will not be heard No pre-resampling cache hit Last 3 MIDI events are
ignored Playing time: ~31 seconds Notes cut: 0 Notes lost totally: 0
This leads me to believe that there's more to configure somewhere in
order to get the "Instrument: choir aahs" but I don't know where to do
that.
You usually have to install instrument patches (AKA sound-fonts) to go with
timidity. On my system, I have a choice in the repo, either freepats,
or fluid-soundfont.
You also have to pick an instrument from the list of instruments in that
set of patches. I started out with one that isn't included. I wanted to
switch to piano anyway and chose that. I got sound, but I also got an
error message saying that that instrument didn't exist. That's when I
found the list. Acoustic grand, or something like that is the default
when "piano" is chosen. I changed the setting in my LilyPond code to
acoustic grand and the error messages went away. Somewhere else I
noticed that Frescobaldi is using timidity.
Thanks for all the pointers. I think the rest of my issues will be music
related, and I've found a forum for LilyPond/Frescobaldi where those
questions will go.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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