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What soundfont is ffplay using to play MIDIs? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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I can't seem to figure it out. When it plays a MIDI file, it references Timidity++ in the output:

  Metadata:
    name            : Piano
    instrument      : Timidity GM patches
    sample          : Piano
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    extra info      : 51 patterns, 26 channels, 1/11 instrument, 12/12 samples
  Duration: 00:03:06.00, bitrate: 1 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1411 kb/s

Playing the file with Timidity++ results in nothing, as Timidity++ apparently isn't a soundfont, and searching "Timidity GM patches" brings up nothing.

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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Maybe ffplay doesn't use timidity application. The name says "GM patches" under "instrument". Sounds to me like some Timidity based soundfont, not an application.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The sounds are coming from patch files loaded via PAT_Load_Instruments in libmodplug, which is what's used to generate the sounds.

    You are right though that the patch/instrument consists of several pre-generated samples and does not use Timidity "live".

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