Re: [Ultrastar-ng-devel] A song for Christmas

[Lasse K. <tro...@tr...>]

>  From my experience, the default Windows MIDI synthetizer is pure crap 
> compared to software synthetizers like Timidity. The quality of the 
> rendered music does only depend on the SoundFonts you use with it, not 
> on your soundcard or your MIDI synthetizer.

It's not very realistic, but it sounds good and most importantly it is
stable and reliable, so that it does not produce any kind of distortions.

I have tried all software synths that I could find for Linux, with
several soundfonts and all just have these horrible issues. Many will
easily go unstable and produce very loud noise that has nothing to do
with the original music. Others just produce clicks or otherwise bad
sound quality.

So, in order to redeem that problem, I actually ended up buying an
el-cheapo Casio keyboard/synth that doesn't do more than 4 simultaneous
tones and doesn't do those very well either, but that still beats the
Linux software synths.

> I've several friends who are musicians, but I didn't want to bother them 
> with that. I'm not sure they'll accept and allow me to distribute the 
> work under a permissive license, but it doesn't cost anything to ask.

I'm sure that they'll do. Most musicians seem to be happy to be asked to
do something like that :)

> I do agree that the instruments may not sound as good as real 
> instruments, but what are the noise you are talking about ? I only heard 
> some clicks here and there, but nothing really that disturbing.

Yes, those clicks. They are disturbing enough for me not to be able to
use the song.