On 3/25/16 10:31 AM, "Daniel Birns" <daniel.bi...@icloud.com> wrote:
>PDF viewers is a different class of problem. > > >I¹ll be concrete. > > >1) I¹m on a mac, and have 3 midi players available to me: Quicktime >(free), Garage Band(free), Sibelius. Of course, Sibelius is a bad >example, because it¹s a direct competitor with lilypond, but I have it. Quicktime and Garage Band are free as in beer, but they are still proprietary, which means you can't alter or improve them. It seems to me that rather than reinvent the wheel, you should be looking at free software, rather than proprietary software. It will either work well, or it will need some improvement. And you could make the improvements in much less time than you can code from scratch. I'm on a mac as well, and I have Aria Maestosa as a free option. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ariamaestosa It seems to work well to me (but I don't have your midi file to see how bad it sounds). I'm just testing some midi files from some LilyPond projects of mine. I also have timidity++, but I need to build that from source, so it may be beyond the ability of the typical user. Many people in the Linux music world seem to use Timidity++ or FluidSynth. Here's an ubuntu page that describes how to do it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Midi/SoftwareSynthesisHowTo The Frescobaldi manual recommends using Qsynth (which is a GUI to FluidSynth), but I haven't been able to get that to work yet (I haven't spent significant time trying, though). It seems to me that starting with these tools, and making whatever improvements you desire, and teaching LilyPond users how to use them, is a more practical way of getting great MIDI output than writing your own MIDI synthesizer. But if you disagree, that's fine. I don't want to throw any hurdles in your way. I'm just hoping to help. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
