Re: midi question

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"David J. Roundy" <address@hidden> writes:

On powerpc, timidity has bugs with direct playback, and possibly
others.  Try doing batch output with -Ou.  If you have an older
version of lilypond, also try option -EO.

> I have a problem, which may be a timidity problem, but I'm not sure.  When
> lily outputs midi and I play it with timidity, some of the voices drop
> out.  I'm asking about it here (rather than on a timidity list) because
> when I download examples of midi output off the web, or run example .ly
> files, it seems to work out fine.
> 
> I tried using timidity out output to a sound file, and then play that file,
> but it seems to have a bug when outputting WAVE or AIFF files (maybe an
> endianness bug related to running on powerpc?), which give me awfull
> shrieking sounds.  When I output to .au format, all the voices seem to be
> there, but of course the sound quality is terrible.

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