Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

[Urs Liska]

Am 08.08.2013 14:08, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt:
> Am 08.08.2013 14:02, schrieb Richard Shann:
> > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:06:36 +0200
> > Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > If I import some musicXML the virtual instruments sound
> > > much better than the standard midi output of either timidity or
> > > mac-quicktime.
> > Isn't this just a question of which soundfont is bundled? We distribute
> > Denemo with a samll (5Mb) soundfont not to waste people's bandwidth
> > when, if they care, they will use one of the many free sound fonts that
> > suit their needs. For my own use I have a 100 Mb single harpsichord stop
> > patched in, replacing the grand piano.
> >
> > Richard Shann
> Of course. There are some really nice soundfonts out there. And I can 
> use aeolus with jack and timidity with kellner tuning to try, if 
> something is sounding on a baroque organ.
> And I can use one of the many free soft synths.
> But I have to install it and prepare it to do this.
> If I use one of the apps I mentioned, it all is sounding out of the 
> box - nice, like most things we hear nowadays in the radio.
> The question is, if users are willing to invest that work.
And it's a question of download capacity. I think you still get these 
programs in boxes with DVDs in them, so it doesn't really matter if the 
thing is 22 MB or 2.2 GB in total.
And if you're willing to spend hundreds of Euro for a software package 
you will also be willing to download it even if it takes hours.
So, having this out-of-the-box ear-candy is of course nice, and probably 
an important selling point to many users. But I don't think it is within 
reach of our project to provide a similar experience.

What could be useful however (I don't know _anything_ about it) would be 
to add a chapter to the documentation talking about how to get 
high-quality audio output from/through LilyPond, referencing useful free 
soundfonts or whatever is useful to get this to work.

Urs
> Cheers,
> Jan-Peter Voigt
>
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