Has anyone given thought to the possibility of having the MIDI instrument names correspond to a given soundfont's program instruments?
I see that the MIDI instrument names are simply specified in midi.scm. How difficult would it be to create a script/process that reads the instruments in a soundfont and maps the channels of the soundfont to the positional names in midi.scm? fluidsynth has a command that one can use "inst 1 <soundfont>" from its shell that will list all the instruments in <soundfont> when it's loaded in fluidsynth. There's is likely an fluidsynth API (though I've no idea what it's written in).
I only ask because anytime I want to use any non-GM soundfont (e.g. and organ soundfont) I have to create a mapping document that shows what instrument I must use in lilypond to get the desired instrument in the selected soundfont to play.
I know that lilypond is not, really, a sequencer but it is very, very nice that it creates midi output and that Frescobaldi, for example, lets me play the midi file lilypond creates.
What would happen if one were to edit midi.scm and remove the instrument names as specified and replace them with Inst001, Inst002, etc--very generic--which at least makes the kind of mapping I'm talking about a bit less odd when MIDIInstrument is shown in the lilypond file as "Acoustic Piano" but what sounds is something else entirely when the soundfont is not a GM soundfont. How might this affect Frescobaldi?
Just asking.