Re: My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates the Tuba; why?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Thank you, Gilles and Valentin.

I'll look into what settings I can change with fluidsynth.

I did try the "\set Staff.midiMinimumVolume = #0.2" and the " \set
Staff.midiMaximumVolume = #0.8" idea; it seemed to help a little.

Thanks!

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:03 AM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
>
> Hello Ken,
>
> Lilypond does not do midi replay, it just produces a midi file. This means 
> that this is most likely a balancing problem of whatever sampler you're using 
> for playback.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
> 27.02.2022 18:47:30 Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi;
> >
> >   My Tuba+Piano engravings: during midi playback, the Piano dominates
> > the Tuba; why?
> >
> >   I know that this is really a midi versus live performance question...
> >
> >   I can change the dynamics of the Tuba to be "fff" and both the left
> > hand and right hand of the Piano to be "ppp", and yet the Piano
> > dominates the Tuba during midi playback.
> >
> >   I'm not expecting a midi playback to sound as good as a live
> > performance, but this seems...odd.
> >
> >   Is there anything I can do with Lilypond to generate a midi playback
> > of Tuba+Piano pieces that sound more realistic?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott