Re: How do you test .MIDI output when the MIDI instrument is not supported?

[Brett McCoy]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Disc Magnet <address@hidden> wrote:

> There some seems to be some MIDI instruments supported by lilypond
> that doesn't seem to be supported by timidity. In such a case, I don't
> get silence output from timidity while plaing the .midi file. For
> example, I was trying the 'string ensemble 2' instrument. The code is:

The stock sounds that come with Timidity are missing a lot of
instruments (viola is missing also!). I suggest getting a soundfont
(Fluid GM soundfont works well) and using that with Timidity instead.
You just need to update your timidity config to use this. Are you
using Linux? Your distro may even have this soundfont available as a
package (Ubuntu Lucid does), it even provides a config file for
Timidity to use.

-- Brett
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