Recently, I've been working with the Byrd Gradualia and wasn't too
thrilled with the default 12TET tuning. I wrote some scripts to generate
tuning shell commands, e.g.:
tuning youngs_well_temperament 0 0
tune 0 0 0 0
tune 0 0 1 93.9
tune 0 0 2 195.8
...
settuning 0 0 0
settuning 1 0 0
...
This works great when I connect a keyboard or otherwise send events via
the ALSA sequencer, but has no effect when specifying a file on the
command line (i.e. fluidsynth -f youngs.txt [soundfont] [midifile]).
I found a thread
(http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2011-11/msg00007.html)
that seemed to address a similar issue, but that one was, apparently,
resolved.
I also found ticket #103, but that clearly concerns something completely
different.
One possible clue is that, when wrestling with the fast renderer, which
has a nasty habit of cutting off the output before everything has
settled, I attempted to append a bit of silence with:
fluidsynth -F [file] [soundfont] [midifile] silence.midi
and got a noticable click. Now, I'm wondering if specifying a file
implies a reset of some sort.