Music

Apart from playing music in a local recorder consort, and at church, I'm interested in typesetting music. You can find things I (and many many others) have typeset with Lilypond at the Mutopia (Music to the People) website.

Timidity and Soundfonts

Ther's no information that I could find in the timidity documentation or on the web to say how to use soundfonts with timidity. So I worked it out, based on reading the source code (isn't open source marvellous!).

Using an entire Sondfont

If you have a soundfont (such as that available from PersonalCopy.com) that contains the complete general midi instrument collection, and you want to use all of the instruments in it, add

      soundfont "PersonalCopy.sf2"

to your timidity.cfg file.

To replace a single instrument, use:

      bank 0
        6 %font ross.sf2 1 2

to use the second instrument in bank 1 in soundfont ross.sf2 as instrument 6 (the harpsichord) in bank 0.

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