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

[Mark Knecht]

Peter,
   Any thoughts about making some future version that could function more
like a General MIDI device?

1) Accept MIDI data on maybe 4 channels
2) Load 4 soundfonts. (Or more using this stack approach. Interesting.)
3) Play up to a specific number of voices, like 16 or 32?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Peter
> Hanappe
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:47 PM
> To: Chris Cannam
> Cc: Mark Knecht; iiwusynth devel; address@hidden
> Subject: [Swami-devel] Re: [iiwusynth-devel] RE: Hi - Very quiet list -
> my first post
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> 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.  <CUT>
> > 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?
>
> No matter how many SoundFonts you load, the synthesizer remains just
> one synthesizer. So that's why there's only one ALSA MIDI device.
>
> When you load several SoundFonts, the banks and presets of the lastly
> loaded file can mask the banks and presets of previously loaded files.
> It works like a stack. I guess that's the problem you ran into.
> Last I tested, that's how Labs/Creative's SoundFont synth works. Maybe
> not ideal, so we'll add an option to change the default behavior.
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