On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:20 PM Urs Liska <li...@openlilylib.org> wrote:
> 17. Oktober 2019 22:19, "Saul Tobin" <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> schrieb: > > > The biggest killer-feature for me would be the ability to playback > multiple midi files > > simultaneously in sync (to work around the 16 track limitation). > > Sounds cool, but that's obviously not on the table. I think this is the > domain of DAWs. > Totally understand it's not on the table or what you're working on. I don't agree it's the domain of DAWs, however. I'm not talking about high quality tweakable MIDI sequencing. Literally just a quick and dirty preview, like starting multiple instances of pmidi at the same time. > > > > > Audio format-wise, I think mp3 is fine. I doubt anyone particularly > cares about lossless quality > > for their general midi soundfont playback. > > Fair point. But two comments: > - To get mp3 the MIDI is first converted to a lossless format anyway. > - I think many people who want audio files want them to *share* them, > either on some sort of sharing platform or to hand them over to some > partner for whatever purpose. And for that there may be specific > requirements. > > But your comment reinforces my gut-feeling that the proper approach is not > to provide too many formats but rather a nice, well-defined selection. > > Urs > > > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 10:34 AM Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Urs, > >> > >> I'm thinking you mean here "Frescobaldi on Linux" right (since you also > >> say fluidsynth)? I use Frescobaldi primarily on Windows. And though one > >> can use Cygwin, etc. to install an app like timidity, Frescobaldi does > >> not "see" it. But I can, and to, have lame installed because I can use > >> VirtualMidiSyth to manually convert midi to mp3. > >> > >> Just putting this out there so you know. > >> > >> Regards! > >> > >> On 10/17/2019 9:19 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I've just started looking into how Frescobaldi provides support for > >>> "exporting" scores to audio. > >>> > >>> Until now this was hardcoded to use TiMidity (and had to be activated > as > >>> "experimental feature"). > >>> > >>> I have so far created functionality that > >>> > >>> * checks whether timidity, fluidsynth and lame are available > >>> * populates the filter of the file dialog with all registered file > >>> formats for the available converters (=> if (and only if) Lame is > >>> installed the .mp3 filter will be added). You can see a screenshot > >>> at > >>> > https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/pull/1205#issuecomment-543155209 > >>> > >>> After clicking the Save button there will be a configuration dialog > like > >>> we already have for the file *import* functionality. Depending on the > >>> chosen converter/exporter tool it will be possible to configure > selected > >>> settings like for example audio quality, alternative soundfont (in > >>> fluidsynth), effects. > >>> > >>> However, since that's not my area of expertise I'd like to ask for > >>> suggestions (possibly with the corresponding command line invocations) > about > >>> > >>> * which audio formats Frescobaldi should support (I don't think it's > >>> good to clutter the interface with stuff that noone needs) > >>> * which options we should make configurable for the three converter > tools > >>> * if there are other converters we should consider supporting > >>> > >>> Best > >>> Urs > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> lilypond-user mailing list > >>> lilypond-user@gnu.org > >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end > >> of human existence.” > >> ― Aristotle > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> lilypond-user mailing list > >> lilypond-user@gnu.org > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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