Re: [Denemo-devel] MIDI instrument selection

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Nov 2, 2013 11:20 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 11:08 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Yes, it certainly would be good for that. Unfortunately sffile is not
> doing this for us. I can't honestly figure out quite what it is doing,
> but unless it is just my machine (and some windows boxes I tested) it
> simply isn't helping right now.
> The number of presets it returns is the number in all banks of the sound
> font, but we have no code to do bank select.
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> I've just dug back into git and found that at one time we had a fancy
> pattern-matching algorithm installed that took a guess at the name and
> emitted the best match (assuming GM). Shall I revert to that - assuming
> we don't have time to debug sffile... Or would people prefer to enter a
> MIDI program number?

I would prefer not to enter a program number. The reason I changed it was because there are sounds in our soundfont that is not in the GM list. I believe there was also things in the GM list that was absent from our soundfont.

Jeremiah
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> Richard
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