Re: [iiwusynth-devel] RE: Hi - Very quiet list - my first post

[Josh Green]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 05:00, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 09:08, Peter Hanappe wrote:
> > FluidSynth can also load several SoundFont files so you can use
> > them together.
> 
> I've wondered about that.  I'd noticed you can provide several 
> SoundFont file names on the command line, but I've never discovered 
> how you actually get at more than one from an ALSA sequencer such as 
> Rosegarden.  
> 
> iiwusynth only seems to provide one ALSA MIDI device regardless of how 
> many SoundFonts are loaded, and messing about with different channels 
> and bank selects hasn't got me anywhere.  I'm probably just being 
> dense.  Any clues?
> 
> 
> Chris
> 

I think the answer to this type of situation is virtual banks. Smurf
Sound Font Editor has support for a textual based virtual bank format
created by Takashi Iwai (just bank:preset numbers to Patch
File:bank:preset mappings as well as some other useful constructs). This
allows one to combine instruments from multiple patch files into a new
virtual bank. This is another thing on the todo list for libInstPatch.
Adding support for FluidSynth would also be good.
        Josh Green