Hi Laura, On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:27:21AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > I'm trying to set up my USB MIDI keyboard so that it will play through > a synthesizer with a reasonable harpsichord (or for present purposes, > lute) sound and also use tuning tables such as the ones from scala for > meantone tuning. > > Running scala itself on my Ubuntu Intrepid system is problematic, and > I haven't gotten it to actually make any sounds yet. Almost > everything I try hangs without giving me a useful error message. > > I can run qsynth with a .sf2 font from hammersound.com and get a > pretty good harpsichord sound, but I don't know how to alter the > tuning. > > I can run zynaddsubfx with a .scl tuning table loaded, but the plucked > string sounds that come with zynaddsubfx aren't anything like as good > as the harpsichord soundfonts. > > Has anyone solved anything like this problem? I don't think you can adjust fluidsynth's tuning but scala can generate tuning files for timidity and timidity can be started in ALSA server mode (-iA). Should work. Hope that helps Jan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
