Re: [iiwusynth-devel] Puzzle involving multiple soundfonts

[Ken Ellinwood]

Hello,

I'm pretty sure the creative software allows the bank number to be specified
when loading a sound font.  I'm assuming this means that when you load a
soundfont, you have the option of offsetting the internal bank number(s) in the
font during the load process.  I'm not currently in front of my system that has
the Live! card, so to verify this I took look at the docs for Thomas Hammer's
SF2LOAD utilitiy (http://www.hammersound.net/hs_software.html#User's Guide),
which is a command-line sf2 loader for the creative cards.  It takes the bank
number as its first parameter, i.e.,

SF2LOAD 3 myinst.sf2

This loads the font into bank 3. 

Ken


--- Peter Hanappe <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think the synthesizer should, by default, behave as the CreativeLabs
> sound cards. If that's not convenient, we'll add an option to make it
> work the way we think it should. So first, how does a SBLive do it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> 
> M. Nentwig wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In my understanding the 'feature' is a bug, I have encountered the same
> > problem.
> > 
> > When you load a sound font, instrument 0 is automagically assigned to
> > channel 0, instrument 1 to 1 etc. Convenient for lazy
> > single-soundfont-users like me. But it's practically impossible to use
> > several soundfonts at once: 'prog' or 'select' always tries to look up
> > the desired program from the last soundfont loaded. Only if the preset
> > does not exist there, then the previously loaded soundfont is tried,
> > etc (sound font stack).
> > 
> > If your two sound fonts use different bank IDs, then you can use the
> > 'select' command:
> > select 0 1 2 puts instrument 2 from bank 1 into channel 0. But you said,
> > both are bank 0, so that doesn't work.
> > 


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