Re: midi question

[Mats Bengtsson]

How many voices does your example have? 
Have you coded the different instruments in different
Staff contexts (with different names)?
Timidity has a limit on the number of channels it can handle
(though there's an option to increase the number).
Timidity could provide very verbose output on what's
going. I don't remember the flag but check the man page.

What Lilypond version are you using?

   /Mats


> I have a problem, which may be a timidity problem, but I'm not sure.  When
> lily outputs midi and I play it with timidity, some of the voices drop
> out.  I'm asking about it here (rather than on a timidity list) because
> when I download examples of midi output off the web, or run example .ly
> files, it seems to work out fine.
> 
> I tried using timidity out output to a sound file, and then play that file,
> but it seems to have a bug when outputting WAVE or AIFF files (maybe an
> endianness bug related to running on powerpc?), which give me awfull
> shrieking sounds.  When I output to .au format, all the voices seem to be
> there, but of course the sound quality is terrible.
> 
> So I was wondering whether there is some subtlety in lily that affects the
> difficulty timidity might have playing the resulting midi file.  Also, if
> anyone has an idea as to how I might get around this problem, I'd
> appreciate it.
> -- 
> David Roundy
> http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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