Re: Midi not playing note I expect

On Thursday 05 May 2011, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
> You can do this also via the Format/Staff
> Properties menu. That's what I always use to set the wanted instruments.
> *But* what I didn't notice until you pointed it out is the possibility
> to "play transposed". Now I have to find out what values to enter.
> Unfortunately, I'll have do do this for every score I make :-(.
> Do you happen to know if the midi-export uses these values also ?

Yes, it does.

> Sometimes I want to email a tune, so I use timidity to convert the midi
> to wav/mp3 (is it possible do do this with fluidsynth ? Didn't find out
> yet). I'll have to try, export and re-import should prove this.

Yes, FluidSynth converts MIDI files to wav and other audio formats, if it was compiled with libsndfile support.  openSUSE 11.4 contains the latest FluidSynth release: 1.1.3

To find out the available output formats type this command:
$ fluidsynth -T help

For instance, to convert in batch mode a MIDI file to wav audio, use a command like this:
$ fluidsynth -F music.wav soundfont.sf2 music.mid 

You will need a good soundfont (sf2). For classic orchestral instruments I like GeneralUser (available in packman repo: http://packman.links2linux.org) and FluidR3 available in Jan Engelhardt's repo: http://jftp.medozas.de).

Regards,
Pedro