Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-06 Thread J. G. Stalnaker
Ben and David, Short Story I think what is missing in the previous communication is that both timidity and fluidsynth can be run as applications from a terminal prompt to play midi files AND in what’s called “daemon,” i.e., “server” mode - that is, they are loaded into system memory and stay load

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 18:38:34 (+0100), Ben Engbers wrote: > It showed that fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-common were > already installed. I only had to add fluid-soundfont-gs. > > I also found this page: > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-midi-audio-on-fedora-with-fluidsynth

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread Ben Engbers
Hi, It showed that fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-common were already installed. I only had to add fluid-soundfont-gs. I also found this page: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-midi-audio-on-fedora-with-fluidsynth/103401 It tells me that the command "fluidsynth -is" is use

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 08:44:19 (-0800), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM Ben Engbers wrote: > > I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth > > soundfiles? > > FluidSynth and QSynth use soundfont files, I believe (at least on my > machine [Ubuntu] they

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread Knute Snortum
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM Ben Engbers wrote: > > I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth > soundfiles? > FluidSynth and QSynth use soundfont files, I believe (at least on my machine [Ubuntu] they do). I use "GeneralUser's" soundfont files which I get from here:

Re: Linux OS, adding Midi

2025-02-04 Thread Ben Engbers
Hi, I only recently picked up using lilypond again and found that writing a guitar score with several staffs and a tabstaff is not that easy. Figuring out how to accomplish everything takes a lot of time ;-) I installed fluidsynh and QSynth but never heard of the fluidsynth soundfiles? It mi