On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:41:13AM -0700, Dave LeCompte (really) wrote: > "John Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wondered: > > I guess a midi-file will sound different on different platforms. But > > will it be a huge difference or just a small difference? > > I'm planning to use BASSMidi (http://www.un4seen.com/) for one of my > current projects. The benefit to this is that the MIDI synthesis happens > on the CPU, instead of the sound card, so the music guy can give me a > "sound font" with the instruments he likes. This should give consistent > sounding music across a variety of machines.
If I recall correctly, pygame plays midi using sdl_mixer, which plays midi using an embedded fork of timidity. Timidity is a software synth, and uses soundfonts, so you can get consistent-sounding midi across platforms. What I don't know is how to replace/modify the sound font that pygame(sdl_mixer(timidity)) uses in a cross-platform way. Also, when people have described problems with pygame's built-in midi support on this list, I have a hunch that they may actually be missing soundfont problems. --- James Paige
