Re: Frescobaldi, improve support for audio export

[Urs Liska]

17. Oktober 2019 18:59, "Guy Stalnaker" <address@hidden> schrieb:

> Urs,
> 
> I'm thinking you mean here "Frescobaldi on Linux" right (since you also say 
> fluidsynth)? 

I don't "mean" that but it seems that's what I'm talking about. 
However, although I don't know much about these things resources like 
https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/wiki/BuildingWithCMake seem to 
indicate that it *is* possible to have fluidsynth as a real Windows application.

> I use
> Frescobaldi primarily on Windows. And though one can use Cygwin, etc. to 
> install an app like
> timidity, Frescobaldi does not "see" it. 

OK, then the general question seems to be: are there command line tools that 
can be used to convert MIDI to audio on Windows in a way that Frescobaldi can 
use?

> But I can, and to, have lame installed because I can use
> VirtualMidiSyth to manually convert midi to mp3.

OK, a quick glance on the VirtualMidiSynth homepage made it clear that I won't 
be able to fully digest how things relate here. What would be your setup to 
"manually convert midi to mp3", is there a possibility to wrap that in a 
command line invocation?
May lack of support for Windows-specific functionality is not ideological 
(well, mostly ;-) ), but I need specific input to try making it work.

> 
> Just putting this out there so you know.
> 

Thanks
Urs
> Regards!
> 
> On 10/17/2019 9:19 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I've just started looking into how Frescobaldi provides support for > 
>> "exporting" scores to audio.
>> Until now this was hardcoded to use TiMidity (and had to be activated as > 
>> "experimental feature").
>> I have so far created functionality that
>> * checks whether timidity, fluidsynth and lame are available
>> * populates the filter of the file dialog with all registered file
>> formats for the available converters (=> if (and only if) Lame is
>> installed the .mp3 filter will be added). You can see a screenshot
>> at
>> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/pull/1205#issuecomment-543155209
>> After clicking the Save button there will be a configuration dialog like > 
>> we already have for the
>> file *import* functionality. Depending on the > chosen converter/exporter 
>> tool it will be possible
>> to configure selected > settings like for example audio quality, alternative 
>> soundfont (in >
>> fluidsynth), effects.
>> However, since that's not my area of expertise I'd like to ask for > 
>> suggestions (possibly with the
>> corresponding command line invocations) about
>> * which audio formats Frescobaldi should support (I don't think it's
>> good to clutter the interface with stuff that noone needs)
>> * which options we should make configurable for the three converter tools
>> * if there are other converters we should consider supporting
>> Best
>> Urs
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