Not what you want to hear ... but I don't think so. In my program MMA I
have added a "sync" option just for this reason. It creates a short (one
midi tick) on and then off event at offset 0. I think this is the only way
to do this.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Peter Billam <p...@pjb.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm trying to split a .mid file t.mid into separate channels
> eg t_cha0.mid t_cha1.mid t_cha4.mid
> then convert each of those to wav t_cha0.wav t_cha1.wav t_cha4.wav
> so that I can treat them with effects eg using sox
> then mix them back together eg using ecasound.
>
> BUT when I convert mid->wav using timidity, eg:
> timidity -Ow -o t_cha1.wav t_cha1.mid
> the four seconds of initial silence in t_cha1.mid before the first
> note gets suppressed :-( thus destroying the co-ordination between
> my files and making mixdown impossible :-(
>
> I've been through man timidity and man timidity.cfg
> and there are hundreds of options, but I see nothing to
> disable the destruction of the initial silence.
>
> I tried inserting a note_off event into t_cha1.mid just before
> the 4-second initial silence, but timidity is 'clever' enough to
> ingore it :-(
>
> Does anyone know a timidity option to preserve initial silence ?
>
> I'm on debian stable ...
> TiMidity++ version 2.13.2
>
> Regards, Peter Billam
>
> http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410
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>
>
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