Re: Adding acoustic guitar (steel) to MIDI

[Trevor Daniels]

David you wrote Tuesday, March 15, 2016 5:35 AM

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:23 PM -0700, "tisimst [via Lilypond]" wrote:

>> Frescobaldi doesn't actually provide the MIDI sound 
>> font, just the player interface. So, if you are only 
>> hearing piano, regardless of your choice of midiInstrument, 
>> then there must be a problem with your OS's built-in 
>> MIDI sound font. Which OS are you using?

> My OS is Windows Vista.

Your code works fine under Frescobaldi in Windows Vista
(with string->steel, of course).

But the default sound fonts are rather poor in Windows,
with many instruments barely distinguishable from piano.

I use VirtualMidiSynth from
http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
with the Fluid R3 GM bank from
http://www.synthfont.com/soundfonts.html
and the difference between piano and steel guitar is
quite clear.

Trevor