Re: [Denemo-devel] MIDI instrument selection

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Nov 2, 2013 5:19 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> I have noticed this is completely broken. The "number of presets" seems
> to be the number in all "banks" in the sound font.
> The drop down list actually lists instruments from bank 127 while the
> instruments we play are all for bank 0. Worse, once you have set a name
> you cannot select by program number. And finally there is a
> g_lib_critical warning from somewhere in the g_string manipulations.
> I propose disabling the selection by name and letting people look up the
> instrument list to program number correspondence (we could restore the
> old GM list which would apply to the bank 0 of the soundfont we supply).

GM list would probably accommodate most people. There will be still some people who will want to use soundfonts the only contain custom sounds. I thought it would be a convience for them to look up their soundfont pathes/samples via instrument name.

Jeremiah
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