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

[Mark Knecht]

Peter,
   In this case a non/new-user is asking questions of the master without
appropriate study first. Please be kind Yoda.

   I think Chris and I were under the impression (certainly I was) that
Fluid-synth handled only a single MIDI channel at a time. If I now
understand correctly, you are telling me it actually can handle 16 different
channels and 256 simultaneous voices all at the same time? If this is the
case then completely covers my previous question.

   I need to determine how to map each specific soundfont to a specific MIDI
channel. What I understood from the command line was that I entered a list
of options, and then a list of soundfonts. I did not see how to associate
the first soundfont with MIDI channel 1, the second with MIDI channel 2, the
third with 3, etc. I still don't. I think (possibly) that's what Chris was
asking about.

   I need to get some soundfonts and do some experimenting with Fluid-synth.
I did not realize it had this much polyphonic capability.

thanks much,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Peter
> Hanappe
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:45 PM
> To: Mark Knecht
> Cc: Chris Cannam; iiwusynth devel; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Swami-devel] Re: [iiwusynth-devel] RE: Hi - Very quiet
> list - my first post
>
>
>
> 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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