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

[Peter Hanappe]

Hi Mark,

I'm not quite sur I understand your mail. By default there are
16 channels and maximum 256 voices. This can be changed on the
command line to any arbitrary value (well, to 2^31-1). The number
of soundfonts you can load is unlimited.

Can you explain a bit more what you had in mind?

Cheers!
Peter




Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > P
> >
> >
> >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
> > >
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