Hi,
I'm a Windows user, but a long time ago (around 8 years) I would use Timidity
to play midis, using the nice eawpats set and so on.
Now, I'm going to write a program that is a graphical interface for converting
midi to wav (or mp3), with Timidity++ being the backend. I have a collection of
midi files of mostly nostalgic value, but since the default midi capabilities
of new computers sounds bad or at least different, I'm making mp3s of the songs
to keep as well. The idea of the program is to make it easier for people (like
me) on Windows to convert a midi to mp3, and to specify which patches to use
for which instruments. The program will also let you change the volume of the
tracks, with a mixer. I think I'll call it something along the lines of "Timidi
to mp3", and will be GPLd. I develop in Windows but a Linux port should be
straightforward because I'll write it in Python.
I realize the project is out of date, but I figure since it won't be that much
work to do, I might as well. Also, these days computers come with pretty bad
midi sounds, at least to my ears. It disappoints me when I friends talk about
how bad MIDI music is, as they don't realize that MIDI doesn't inherently sound
bad, it's just the bad soundcard/default quicktime that sounds cheesy.
I should be able to finish this in about a month (factoring in the other things
I'm doing), and have some ideas in mind on what features it will have, but I
thought I would post here to see what others think.
-Ben
halfhourhacks.blogspot.com
PS By the way, it looks like the wiki at
http://timidity-docs.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi?NEWS-2.13.1 is
inaccessible now, so I've been using archive.org to read it.
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