3 Feb
2009
3 Feb
'09
11:33 a.m.
I'm trying to set up my USB MIDI keyboard so that it will play through
a synthesizer with a reasonable harpsichord (or for present purposes,
lute) sound and also use tuning tables such as the ones from scala for
meantone tuning.
Running scala itself on my Ubuntu Intrepid system is problematic, and
I haven't gotten it to actually make any sounds yet. Almost
everything I try hangs without giving me a useful error message.
I can run qsynth with a .sf2 font from hammersound.com and get a
pretty good harpsichord sound, but I don't know how to alter the
tuning.
I can run zynaddsubfx with a .scl tuning table loaded, but the plucked
string sounds that come with zynaddsubfx aren't anything like as good
as the harpsichord soundfonts.
Has anyone solved anything like this problem?
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3 Feb
3 Feb
11:53 a.m.
Hi Laura,
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:27:21AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
I'm trying to set up my USB MIDI keyboard so that
it will play through
a synthesizer with a reasonable harpsichord (or for present purposes,
lute) sound and also use tuning tables such as the ones from scala for
meantone tuning.
Running scala itself on my Ubuntu Intrepid system is problematic, and
I haven't gotten it to actually make any sounds yet. Almost
everything I try hangs without giving me a useful error message.
I can run qsynth with a .sf2 font from hammersound.com and get a
pretty good harpsichord sound, but I don't know how to alter the
tuning.
I can run zynaddsubfx with a .scl tuning table loaded, but the plucked
string sounds that come with zynaddsubfx aren't anything like as good
as the harpsichord soundfonts.
Has anyone solved anything like this problem?
I don't think you can adjust fluidsynth's tuning but scala can generate
tuning files for timidity and timidity can be started in ALSA server
mode (-iA).
Should work.
Hope that helps
Jan
2:42 p.m.
Laura Conrad wrote:
I'm trying to set up my USB MIDI keyboard so that
it will play through
a synthesizer with a reasonable harpsichord (or for present purposes,
lute) sound and also use tuning tables such as the ones from scala for
meantone tuning.
Running scala itself on my Ubuntu Intrepid system is problematic, and
I haven't gotten it to actually make any sounds yet. Almost
everything I try hangs without giving me a useful error message.
I can run qsynth with a .sf2 font from hammersound.com and get a
pretty good harpsichord sound, but I don't know how to alter the
tuning.
I can run zynaddsubfx with a .scl tuning table loaded, but the plucked
string sounds that come with zynaddsubfx aren't anything like as good
as the harpsichord soundfonts.
Has anyone solved anything like this problem?
TiMidity++ (mine is version 2.13.2) accepts sf2 files, and the following
command line arguments:
-Z file, --freq-table=file
Cause the table of frequencies to be read from file. This is useful to define
a tuning different from 12-equal temperament. If ``pure'' is specified,
TiMidity++ plays in trial pure intonation.
-Zpure[n(m)], --pure-intonation=[n(m)]
Play in trial pure intonation by Key Signature meta-event in the MIDI file.
You can specify the initial keysig by hand, in case the MIDI file does not
contains the meta-event. Optionally, n is the number of key signature. In
case of sharp, n is positive. In case of flat, n is negative. Valid values
of n are in the interval from -7 to 7. In case of minor mode, you should
put `m' character along with -Zpure option.
The format for the table of frequencies is a simple text file with 128
integers representing the frequency in Hz of each MIDI note number.
As an example, the attached BC program generates a table of frequencies
corresponding to the equal temperament.
Regards,
Pedro
7:33 p.m.
>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro
Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas(a)gmail.com> writes:
Pedro> The format for the table of frequencies is a simple text file
Pedro> with 128 integers representing the frequency in Hz of each
Pedro> MIDI note number.
Thanks, that's the kind of answer I was hoping for. I did find
references to people using timidity for things like this, but not
anything explaning what the table looked like.
The scala scale files seem to mostly have only one octave, but I can
multiply or divide by 2 enough times to get 128 notes.
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4 Feb
4 Feb
5:58 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Laura Conrad <sunny(a)laymusic.org> wrote:
A quick pedantic note: not all scales that come with scala repeat
evenly on the octave, so dividing by or multiplying by two may not be
appropriate for some of the more specialized scales.
>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
<pedro.lopez.cabanillas(a)gmail.com> writes:
Pedro> The format for the table of frequencies is a simple text file
Pedro> with 128 integers representing the frequency in Hz of each
Pedro> MIDI note number.
Thanks, that's the kind of answer I was hoping for. I did find
references to people using timidity for things like this, but not
anything explaning what the table looked like.
The scala scale files seem to mostly have only one octave, but I can
multiply or divide by 2 enough times to get 128 notes.
--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are
taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the
stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the
essays.
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9:24 a.m.
>>>> "Justin" == Justin Smith
<noisesmith(a)gmail.com> writes:
> The scala scale files seem to mostly have only one
octave, but I
> can multiply or divide by 2 enough times to get 128 notes.
Justin> A quick pedantic note: not all scales that come with scala
Justin> repeat evenly on the octave, so dividing by or multiplying
Justin> by two may not be appropriate for some of the more
Justin> specialized scales.
Actually I've played around with it a bit and Scala seems to export the
file timidity wants directly. It also exports something it calls a
shell script that allegedly works with fluidsynth, but I haven't figured
out how to make fluidsynth read that yet. I also don't have Timidity
reading both the font and the tuning table at the same time yet, but I'm
still working on it.
--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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4:50 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Laura Conrad <sunny(a)laymusic.org> wrote:
A shell script should be an executable file, does it work to just mark
it as executable and run it?
>>>> "Justin" == Justin Smith <noisesmith(a)gmail.com> writes:
> The scala scale files seem to mostly have
only one octave, but I
> can multiply or divide by 2 enough times to get 128 notes.
Justin> A quick pedantic note: not all scales that come with scala
Justin> repeat evenly on the octave, so dividing by or multiplying
Justin> by two may not be appropriate for some of the more
Justin> specialized scales.
Actually I've played around with it a bit and Scala seems to export the
file timidity wants directly. It also exports something it calls a
shell script that allegedly works with fluidsynth, but I haven't figured
out how to make fluidsynth read that yet. I also don't have Timidity
reading both the font and the tuning table at the same time yet, but I'm
still working on it.
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