Re: [fluid-dev] Recent discussions on sysex commands and the MIDI Tuning Standard

[David Bellows]

> FluidSynth is supposed to support MTS.  I have never used it myself though.  
> If you are having troubles using this, it may be a bug.  An example file 
> would be helpful for testing purposes.

Cool! I've attached a MIDI file generated by the Lua library at:
http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/lua/MIDI.html.
It is random piano notes using Pythagorean tuning. It plays just fine
in timidity but I can't get it to play in fluidsynth. I am able to get
conventional MIDI files to play in fluidsynth. The command I'm using
is:
fluidsynth -a alsa -m alsa_seq -l -i
/home/dave/soundfonts/campbellspianobeta2.sf2 Piano_Standard.midi



On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Element Green
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello David
>
> FluidSynth is supposed to support MTS.  I have never used it myself though.
> If you are having troubles using this, it may be a bug.  An example file
> would be helpful for testing purposes.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Element
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 7:57 AM, David Bellows <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> First off, I really do not understand MIDI to a surprisingly alarming
>> degree, so forgive me if none of this really connects.
>>
>> I'm working on some software that generates music using any tuning
>> imaginable. The software generates a MIDI file that uses the MIDI
>> Tuning Standard to basically (when seen from a high level description)
>> send specific audio frequencies with each note (that's not really
>> what's happening but that's kind of what it looks like) using various
>> sysex commands.
>>
>> Right now I'm using Timidity to play those MIDI files and convert them
>> to various audio files. I've been told that switching to FluidSynth
>> will make things easier/better but for now I can't do this because FS
>> doesn't seem able to playback those MIDI files my software generates
>> using the MTS.
>>
>> Is there any plan to support the MTS in FluidSynth or is it something
>> that is forever tied directly to a specific "manufacturer" and
>> Timidity just took it upon itself to create meanings for these
>> specific sysex commands?
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>> Dave
>>
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Piano_Standard.midi
Description: MIDI audio