Re: [fluid-dev] Re: MIDI Standard Specs

[josh]

Quoting David Henningsson <address@hidden>:
> Graham Goode skrev:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For GM1 and GM2 specs see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI,
> > http://www.midi.org/techspecs/gm.php
> > For GS download a Roland Sound Canvas manual from
> > http://www.edirol.net/products/en/archives.html and see the appendix
> > lists
> > For XG try   
> > http://web.archive.org/web/20060926124939/http://www.yamaha.co.uk/xg/reading/pdf/xg_spec.pdf
> >
> > Hope that helps...
> >
> > GrahamG
>
> Thanks. I knew about the GM1/GM2 spec URL - that's basically advertising
> for buying the spec from the MIDI organization.
>
> Downloading the Roland Sound Canvas manual was a good idea, I could
> compare that with the XG spec and if they suggest the same, I could
> change FluidSynth default to be in line with that standard. Two examples
> are that the default volume of a channel will be 100 (current default
> value is 127) and all channels will get instrument 0 as default (current
> default instrument is the same as the channel number).
>
> Any objections to these (and similar) changes to make FluidSynth more in
> line with the midi specifications?
>
> // David

I think using 100 for the volume parameter is a good idea.  As far as  
the program number being that of the channel number by default, I  
think that was for convenience of live playing, to be able to simply  
use different instruments by switching channels.  I don't see it as  
that convenient though and it would probably be good to just use the  
first program number for all channels, especially if that is part of  
the MIDI standard.  So feel free to make those changes :)

Best regards,
Josh