Re: midi articulation

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Birns <address@hidden> writes:

>> 
>> I'm on a mac as well, and I have Aria Maestosa as a free option.
>> 
>>  https://sourceforge.net/projects/ariamaestosa
>> 
>
> Thanks for the reference. The problem is there are no sounds in Aria
> Maestosa. It uses what comes with the OS, which is poor to
> unacceptable.
>
> The tool I’m thinking of would have to provide sounds as
> well. Naturally, this is only partly a software problem: someone must
> also gather the sounds. But if there were easy tools to add to it such
> that anyone could add sounds, perhaps the problem wouldn’t be so bad.

Free sound fonts tend to be rather mediocre.  A good hardware
synthesizer makes a whole lot of difference, even if the synthesizer is
20 years old.

But that's not really a problem that makes sense solving in the context
of LilyPond: this is a soundfont problem.

-- 
David Kastrup