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

[Valentin Petzel]

Hi Ken,

if you’re using fluidsynth you probably have a badly made sound font. Maybe 
changing the soundfont would do the trick.

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2022, 20:06:14 CET schrieb 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

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