From: Bob v. d. P. <bo...@me...> - 2014-08-08 03:34:04
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Not what you want to hear ... but I don't think so. In my program MMA I have added a "sync" option just for this reason. It creates a short (one midi tick) on and then off event at offset 0. I think this is the only way to do this. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Peter Billam <pj...@pj...> wrote: > 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 > > http://www.pjb.com.au pj...@pj... (03) 6278 9410 > "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman > from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Timidity-talk mailing list > Tim...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/timidity-talk > -- **** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bo...@me... WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca |