>>>>> "Heather" == Heather W Reichgott <heather.reichg...@gmail.com> writes:
Heather> [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] [1.1 <text/plain; Heather> ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] Heather> I have been using Lilypond for some time, and have used MIDI Heather> sequencing software before, too. Back in the early 90s I Heather> taught myself Cakewalk Apprentice with MIDI output for my Heather> early composition projects. :) But I am a beginner regarding Heather> the inner workings of MIDI. I have some beginner questions Heather> about soundfonts. Heather> 1. Is the choice of soundfont a property of the MIDI file Heather> itself, or a property of the playback software? (Or both?) I It's a property of the playback software. MIDI encodes `banks' and `programs' within `banks' only. Bank 0 progams have a conventional mapping to instruments (the so-called GM instrument set), and this is coded at present into Lilypond's MIDI performer, in midi.scm, instrument-names-alist. So Lilypond's output is always bank 0, with program number dependent on the Staff.midiInstrument setting for each staff. This provides maximum portability, so if you give a MIDI file to someone else he or she will hear the same instruments you do (although the actual sounds may be different, depending on what synthesizer is used). If you want to use different configurations for different performances with timidity the simplest way is to use multiple configuration files. you could create, for example, a file called pc51.cfg containing only: soundfont /usr/share/midi/PC51.sf2 then do timidity -c pc51.cfg file.midi to use it. Heather> 2. Is there an easy way to see a list of all the instruments Heather> in a soundfont and hear samples of the sounds? You could try something like swami (which I've never used!) http://www.swamiproject.org/ Peter C -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
