Re: timidity plays back music an octave higher than scored

[Martin Nopola]

On Saturday 19 January 2008 09:57, Eric Patton wrote:
> The subject line says it all...I've scored up a piece of music
> for bass guitar, and everything looks fine on the staff; when
> I play it back in timidity, the piece is transposed an octave
> higher that it should be.
>
> Is there a simple fix for this, or has anyone encountered this
> before?
> ~ Eric.

In linux I run timidty on the command line for classical guitar:
>timidity -K -12  -T 50 fugue.midi
-K -12  = semitones         
 -T =  % tempo
I slow it down to listen for errors.
Read man timidity for all the options.

Marty