Re: [linux-audio-user] Midi recording

terrence@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> Timidity does also have a way of splitting midi-out. If you do
> "timidity -Qx,y,...", where x and y etc. are the channels you want to
> mute. Or, the other way round, you could do "timidity -Q0,-x,-y,...",
> which will mute everything except the channels you specify with the
> dashes. I've been pretty satisfied with the airfont soundfont, but I
> can't remember offhand where I found it.

Just found that same set of switches on the weekend. Almost works :) I
found that timidity strips off any leading silence on each track, so
once again one has to sync things up. I can't see anything in timidity
to fix that???

I finally found the proper incantation to use a soundfont file with
timidity. Simple, and is probably in the docs ... I was trying to do it
from the command line and I could not get it to work. But, just moving
the .sf2 file to the /usr/share/timidity directory and creating a single
line timidity.cfg file with

        soundfont "fluid.sf2" order=0

seems to work. I'll grab the airfont file (now that I know that I can
play a .sf2 file life is simpler) and try that as well.

Best,

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