Re: More ponderings on Chordmode

[Steve Downes]

It may or may not be relevant but I find if I do what have you done I
can get it change to sample to a guitar sound. However it doesn't
sound like a guitar to me unless I sort out the chord voicing to a
guitar inversion as well. This is quite a bit of work so I usually
silence the chord names so they are just visual & then write the notes
of the chord into the staff if I am that bothered about the midi
track.

I can offer some examples & maybe help on this if you think it applies
to you. Otherwise I'll just shut up.

Steve



On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 12:24:25PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> On 2016-02-06 12:05, Peter Gentry wrote:
> >
> >I have tried a couple of different instrument names. The chord sound does 
> >vary but still very much piano like.
> >
> >\score {
> ><<
> >\chords {
> >   \set ChordNames.midiInstrument = #"banjo"
> >     \myChordsTransposed
> >}
> >   \new FretBoards {
> >     \set Staff.stringTunings = #ukulele-tuning
> >     \myChordsTransposed
> >   }
> >
> >   \relative c''
> >   \new Staff {
> >     \set Staff.midiInstrument = "acoustic guitar (nylon)"
> >
> >
> If you change acoustic guitar (nylon) to banjo and comment out the chords
> section you'll hear that the banjo (or any other fretted string instrument)
> will sound through your midi player.
> 
> I'm just using the in Windows built in synthesizer so it doesn't sound like
> a banjo or acoustic guitar. Chords will sound more like a keyboard/piano
> with a slightly different tone.
> 
> So the sound depends on the synthesizer that is used to create them. The
> built in software synthesizer in windows is really bad! Don't know which OS
> you are using, but there are software synthesizer that give a much better
> sound, e.g. Coolsoft Virtual Synth
> http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
> 
> // Anders
> 
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