On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Niels! > Thanks for these tarballs. As for the other tools you mentioned: Although I > like the commandline I know no such things. I know, that Timidity estimates > the playback length of one file. And I'm sure there are other tools > libraries that can easily do it. But noone I know of, thought of this kind > of problem. Hi Julien -- you're welcome, and thanks for sharing your music and starting this interesting thread. If I had time/desire, i'd probably look into using http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/doc/nyquist/ to solve this problem. FYI, here's how this MIDI sounds, on the Yamaha DB60XG (NEC XR-385) whose analog output is recorded by the line-in/waveblaster input on the Terratec DMX6Fire; versus an external sampler with a 2mb "professional" stereo grand sample (E-MU Elements of Sound 2mb collectiion) and external outboard "professional" room/ambience applied, staying entirely in the digital domain from samples to recording. I'll let people decide which is which, and which sounds better or more realistic and piano-like: http://nielsmayer.com/npm/chpn_op53_gnulem.ogg http://nielsmayer.com/npm/chpn_op53_coggie.ogg Both created from: ## file ~/Music/piano-midi/chpn_op53.mid /home/npm/Music/piano-midi/chpn_op53.mid: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 8 tracks at 1/480 Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: When using kmid to listen to the piano-only MIDI files from http://piano-midi.de/ -- they're all very quiet. since the overall volume level on the Yamaha db60xg is adjusted for playing multiple (16) simultaneous tracks of "pop" music as opposed to a single piano.... So after running "kmid *.mid *.MID", I quit kmid, and run the following script to set all the volumes to 200% on these files: ......... ## with this setting, set Terratec DMX6Fire ADC2(LineL)/ADC3(LineR) ## to 135/135 (normally 127/127 == unity gain) cd ~/.kde/share/apps/kmid/songlib sed -i 's|^volume=100|volume=200|' `grep -l piano-midi *.cfg` ........... Afterwards, running kmid on these files will automatically have the volume level at a more normal leve (200%), which is still well below clipping on most files I've auditioned using unity gain on the soundcard input. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
