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Some intuitions about Disklavier

It can only respond as fast as a piano can. It's electro-mechanically activated, but it's still 'just a piano'. Sure, it can play faster than almost any pianist, in theory, but you have to wait for ...
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How do you convert a midi file to a guitar sound?

You can attain a sound closer to the real instruments by using VSTs, and some basic knowledge of DAW you use. There are various VST plugins available, free and paid, that offer realistic guitar tones ...
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How do you convert a midi file to a guitar sound?

You can Change Instrument to guitar in your MuseScore file. (You can choose from Electric, Acoustic, or Classical.) Then playback will use the guitar sound, and if you export to .mp3 (or whatever) ...
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Better midi playback on mac

For anyone who stumbles on this: I dumped timidity and started using fluidsynth. Getting much better playback. I am using FluidR3_GM.sf2 soundfont.
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