Hi Yves,
-I cycle over the fluidsynth thing later and give feedback. About the contrabass thing, too. Same with step 4.
-Thanks for bug reporting. I had this one, too, once a while. And thanks for sharing the work around so far.
I could help gutemberg with a bug nag too, at least will put it in the personal todo list, until ...
-next time I start scripting: I see, it is a question of effort. I dream of a rg macro recorder, pardon, python macro recorder meanwhile. (; ... but ok I_ find, maybe this text processing hacks into the rg status file could be a powerful thought though.
So I understand what I saw, that namely somebody filed a rg feature request on issuing at least the "Play" Button as a script function.
 

Moreover, I presume that a MIDI file can't use more than 16 instruments.

 ex- and imported your 24instruments.rg as midi (came well to that idea) and it showed off at least with 24 tracks. But can be that this limitation is existing, so it is impossible.

Regards

 

30.08.2016, 15:57, "Yves Guillemot" <yc.guille...@wanadoo.fr>:

Le lundi 29 août 2016, 20:55:37 Mario Gummies a écrit :

> Hi Yves, hi others ,

> -about vu-meter: I got this screenshot with ubuntu 14.04 now I am using

> 16.04, so maybe this has something to do with "vu-meter?".

Screen is continuously changing when playing and the vu-meters are hidden during the rests. The time they are hidden/visible is certainly system dependant, so I'm not surprised we don't see exactly the same thing.

 

>

> -Thanks for your trouble shoot.

> After fixing the "midi instrument index shift", it came out, that that was

> the only hindrance of it all. And now I can hear all instruments (!!!) ,

> seemingly at least. Yes, besides one: the contrabass, even if I put it to

> program 44 contrabass. I put it to 45 tremolo strings, then it sounded at

> least.

I can hear the 44 contrabass.

Maybe it's related to the sound font Timidity uses which may depend on the distro.

 

You may give a try to FluidSynth which usually makes a better sound than Timidity:

- Download some GM sound font (http://www.ntonyx.com/soft/32MbGMStereo.sf2

is a good one).

- Start FluidSynth in place of Timidity:

fluidsynth -sij /somewhere/32MbGMStereo.sf2 &

- In RG studio, connect the MIDI device to the fluidsynth port

 

>

> -So how about it, should not one _bug report/fix then the original files,

> if they are against standard? They are, are not they? Here ist the source

> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/117/117-h/117-h.htm and I do not know how

> common is this "bug", is it? And, yes I am total thus limited newbie both

> for music and music software.

The bug probably was in the tools used to create the 117-1.mid file.

It's certainly not so common, here are three other MIDI fifth symphony versions with the right instruments:

http://www.kunstderfuge.com/beethoven/variae.htm

 

 

BTW there is something which looks like a RG bug here:

- Start a new RG session

- Import a MIDI file with various GM instruments

- Play it on some GM synth

==> all the tracks are sounding like piano (i.e. program #1)

 

There is a workaround to hear the correct instruments: save the composition in a RG file then reload it.

 

I'll write a ticket about it.

 

>

> -Regarding a rg-tutorial: This turns out to be a tutorial not to "import

> midis with more then 16 instruments/programs and about the usage of banks",

> but one about importing "broken, instrument index shifted midi files",

> maybe this could be of good use, if that is a common, a faq issue. But for

> a real "more than 16 instrument tutorial use case", one needed such a midi

> file, does not one?

I started writing this stuff following Ted's remark that MIDI only supports 16 channels. I was a bit too quick as I only noticed later that the instruments were not so many.

RG compositions needing more then 16 programs probably are scarce.

Moreover, I presume that a MIDI file can't use more than 16 instruments.

 

>

> - Regarding a scripting interface: That should be topic of another thread.

> But I wish it really bad. How do they call it? "python bindings" from cpp,

> no?: ya esta. Is there an opinion about it among yous, if this is wished or

> worth the effort, I would like know anyway.

That's an old topic:

https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/mailman/rosegarden-user/thread/45feaa13.5020...@riquer.eu.org/

There is a page about it in the wiki:

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/dev:ramblings_about_scripting

 

I'm afraid RG has even fewer developpers it had when this thread was written and none of them has a lot of time.

 

>

> -Did not follow step4; but downloaded your rg file, which anyway functioned

> without further configuring. I think I needed the midi file to set it up,

> right?

I sent the example as is to show what the MIDI Device Manager and the Program and Bank Manager are like.

I presume to give a step by step description of how to set them up is not really needed.

 

Yves

 

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