[timidity-talk] timidity destroys initial silence :-(

[Peter B. <pj...@pj...>]

Greetings all,

I'm trying to split a .mid file t.mid into separate channels
eg t_cha0.mid t_cha1.mid t_cha4.mid
then convert each of those to wav t_cha0.wav t_cha1.wav t_cha4.wav
so that I can treat them with effects eg using sox
then mix them back together eg using ecasound.

BUT when I convert mid->wav using timidity, eg:
  timidity -Ow -o t_cha1.wav t_cha1.mid
the four seconds of initial silence in t_cha1.mid before the first
note gets suppressed :-( thus destroying the co-ordination between
my files and making mixdown impossible :-(

I've been through  man timidity  and  man timidity.cfg
and there are hundreds of options, but I see nothing to
disable the destruction of the initial silence.

I tried inserting a note_off event into t_cha1.mid just before
the 4-second initial silence, but timidity is 'clever' enough to
ingore it :-(

Does anyone know a timidity option to preserve initial silence ?

I'm on debian stable ...
  TiMidity++ version 2.13.2

Regards,  Peter Billam

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 from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949