Re: Midiimport für Lilypond/Frescobaldi

[Karlin High]

My favorite software for generating MIDI files for rehearsals is SpeedyMIDI:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedymidi/

That program allows entering pitches and durations as a MIDI file. Then
Frescobaldi, or the LilyPond midi2ly tool it uses, can generate a LY file
from it.


Bernhard Kleine wrote
> I have seen that VLC mediaplayer has to be supplied with softfonts e.g.
> fluid-softfonts. The installation proposal, however, does not state how to
> supply this softfonts to the actual VLC. I have still efforts before me to
> get MIDI output on my machine.

Here is my favorite place to get soundfonts:
http://www.schristiancollins.com/generaluser.php

Those have much more realistic sound than what Windows Media Player has for
defaults.

To set up VLC Player, you will need the older 2.0.8 version, as Robin
Bannister noted. The FluidSynth MIDI feature was removed from later versions
for security reasons, they say. Here's what I did to get mine working.

Download the GeneralUser GS soundfonts from that website. It's a zip folder
containing documentation and the SF2 soundfont file "GeneralUser GS
v1.47.sf2" or similar. That file needs stored somewhere appropriate for VLC
to find it. I used:
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\GeneralUser GS 1.47\GeneralUser GS v1.47.sf2

In VLC, click the Tools menu, then Preferences. The Preferences window
appears, and in the lower left corner, click the "Show settings: All"
option. After that, there should be a big tree of preferences to the left.
Click Input / Codes -> Audio Codecs -> FluidSynth and the FluidSynth MIDI
synthesizer settings should appear to the right. There's a text box to enter
a file path for the SF2 sound fonts file, or use the browse button to set
the location. Click the Save button, and VLC should be able to play MIDI
files with superior-quality sound. VLC also has a Convert / Save feature to
make audio files like MP3 from the MIDI file.



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