Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 10:26, Stanton Sanderson wrote: > Laura, > As I understand it, fluidsynth requires a sound font (easy to find), and > qsynth provides an easy way to use it. I’m using Frescobaldi, and preview > files from the midi window. Garage Band will play MIDI and convert it to a > sha

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Stanton Sanderson
Laura, As I understand it, fluidsynth requires a sound font (easy to find), and qsynth provides an easy way to use it. I’m using Frescobaldi, and preview files from the midi window. Garage Band will play MIDI and convert it to a sharable file. I installed Fluidsynth from MacPorts long ago- haven

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 18 Feb 2025 at 09:53:18 (-0500), Laura Conrad wrote: > > "David" == David Wright writes: > > >> "aplaymidi -p 14:0 score.midi" doesn't crash but hangs and doesn't play > >> anything. > > David> It "hung" here for the exact length of the MIDI file (about 4 > seconds > D

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Wright writes: >> "aplaymidi -p 14:0 score.midi" doesn't crash but hangs and doesn't play >> anything. David> It "hung" here for the exact length of the MIDI file (about 4 seconds David> for the output from your attached .ly file, 46 seconds for tenor.midi

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Stan" == Stanton Sanderson writes: Stan> For what it's worth, I am a Mac user- for many years I have been using Stan> qsynth as a front end for fluidsynth, with sound fonts from various Stan> sources. I’d hate to be without it! So if I tell my mac user to install fluidsynth, w

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Peter" == Peter Chubb writes: > "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> Here's a test file that reproduces the Laura> problem: Laura> I have used both timidity and aplaymidi on Linux. 'timidity Laura> test.midi" results in a segmentation fault. It says: Peter> T

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-17 Thread Stanton Sanderson
> On Feb 17, 2025, at 7:54 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 13:36:09 (-0500), Laura Conrad wrote: >> >> This was originally reported by a non-technical MacOS user, so he was >> presumably using the default browser with watever default MIDI player >> that uses. >> >> There ar

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 13:36:09 (-0500), Laura Conrad wrote: > > This was originally reported by a non-technical MacOS user, so he was > presumably using the default browser with watever default MIDI player > that uses. > > There are no error messages when I run lilypond. > > I have used both tim

Re: I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-17 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> Here's a test file that reproduces the Laura> problem: Laura> I have used both timidity and aplaymidi on Linux. 'timidity Laura> test.midi" results in a segmentation fault. It says: This is a Timidity bug I think --- with timidity version 2.14.0-8.

I (and others) can't play lilypond-generated MIDI files

2025-02-17 Thread Laura Conrad
Here's a test file that reproduces the problem: \version "2.22.0" \score { \relative c' { \time 3/2 d1 d2 d1 d2 d2 \bar "|." } \midi{\context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 100 2) } } } This was originally reported by a non-technical MacOS us