The values are customizable, see the file scm/midi.scm for the default settings.
I can confirm the same problem on a Crystal Semiconductor sound card. With the software sequencer timidity, the differences are smaller, though. On the other hand, a good orchestra would maybe make an even bigger difference between pp and ff, for example. That's why it's so hard to listen to classical music in your car, for example. Also when proof-listening to a piece, it's probably better to compress the dynamics. Could we have an compressed_dynamics option (set true by default)?
Of course, one problem is that this particular example does not assign any dynamics at all to the left hand part or the song, just a pp in the right hand, which is much softer than the default dynamics.
/Mats
Silas S. Brown wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a major problem with dynamics in MIDI files. On my Yamaha SW60XG MIDI card, the difference between quiet and loud is way too large (many orders of magnitude), so the quiet is inaudible and the loud is deafening.
As an example of how bad this sounds, here is standchen.midi (downloaded from the v2.0 documentation "examples" section) played on my card and recorded to OGG format. http://access.ucam.org/nobackup/bugdemo.ogg (248k) (available for limited time - please take a copy if needed)
I think the velocity levels of the different dynamics should be customisable, or at least their range should be customisable. Or at least it should be set to less than it is at the moment. XG MIDI cards are quite common.
Best wishes, Silas
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