[linux-audio-user] Re: *UPDATE* MIDI exported from Cakewalk sounds horrible!

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 10:20 -0400, aljordan at maine.rr.com wrote:
> FYI -- I have a couple of songs originally written in Cakewalk Pro-Audio
> 9 that I have imported into Rosegarden to output the tracks through
> Fluid-synth and various soundfonts.  Some of the tracks sound fine, such
> as the piano and bass tracks.  However, the lead guitar track, going
> through Fluid Synth and a Sonic Implants soundfont, sounds horribly out
> of tune whenever more than a single note is played at one time.  I got
> around the problem by sending the guitar track to ZynAddSubFX instead of
> Fluidsynth.  This leads to to believe that it is fluid-synth specific,
> but I haven't done any more digging into the problem to look at specific
> events that might be causing the problem.

If you have an SBLive, you have some MIDI hardware to test it on.  Just
load one of the standard soundfonts and play back the file via the
wavetable synth.

Lee