[linux-audio-user] Midi recording

[Bob van der Poel]

terrence at terrencevak.net wrote:
> 	Timidity does also have a way of splitting midi-out.  If you do 
> "timidity -Qx,y,...", where x and y etc. are the channels you want to 
> mute.  Or, the other way round, you could do "timidity -Q0,-x,-y,...", 
> which will mute everything except the channels you specify with the 
> dashes.  I've been pretty satisfied with the airfont soundfont, but I 
> can't remember offhand where I found it.


Just found that same set of switches on the weekend. Almost works :) I 
found that timidity strips off any leading silence on each track, so 
once again one has to sync things up. I can't see anything in timidity 
to fix that???

I finally found the proper incantation to use a soundfont file with 
timidity. Simple, and is probably in the docs ... I was trying to do it 
from the command line and I could not get it to work. But, just moving 
the .sf2 file to the /usr/share/timidity directory and creating a single 
line timidity.cfg file with

	soundfont "fluid.sf2" order=0

seems to work. I'll grab the airfont file (now that I know that I can 
play a .sf2 file life is simpler) and try that as well.

Best,

-- 
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob at mellowood.ca
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