[LAU] midi file editing

[rosea.grammostola]

On 03/14/2012 07:56 PM, david wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 02:51 AM, Renato wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:11:17 +0530
>> Rustom Mody<rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [I am asking this after wrestling with rosegarden for an hour or so
>>> and getting no sound]
>>
>> Hi, sorry if this is obvious to you, but just in case, you'd
>> probably need a soundfont (like fluidr3) and a soundfont player (like
>> qsynth) to have sound - maybe rosegarden has a built-in soundfont
>> player?
>
> No, it doesn't. That's what qsynth, whysynth or Timidity (if you can
> make it work) is for.
>
>> Anyway you should be able to make it output the midi of the
>> track to qsynth (using qjackctl), and therefore have sound.
>
> RG 11.11.42 just automatically connects.
>
> I use RG mostly for scores. Bringing in a MIDI file usually requires
> some cleanup. For one thing, RG prefers contrapuntal compositions to
> have a separate track for each of the melodies, while lots of MIDIs from
> the web have all the melodies on the same track.
>

Maybe it's more easy to load a dssi plugin (fluidsynth dssi) in rosegarden.

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