Re: [fluid-dev] Assignment of soundfonts to MIDI channels

[Josh Green]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 14:15, Levi Burton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How do you assign a soundfont to a MIDI channel.  When I load a soundfont on 
> the command line, it always assigns it to MIDI channel 0.  It's a drum kit so 
> I would like to assign it to MIDI channel 9 (which would actually be channel 
> 10).
> 
> Thanks.

Ok, I had a look at this. It actually isn't broken, Swami is though,
thats what made me think FluidSynth was. If the SoundFont you are
loading has the drums on bank 128 and preset 0 then they should
automatically get mapped to MIDI channel 10 (9 as far as FluidSynth is
concerned). If they are on some other bank:preset combo then you need to
use the "select" command. Do a "help event" at the fluidsynth prompt.
"help help" will give you a list of other help topics that might be
useful. The format of the select command is "select chan sfont bank
prog". For example: "select 9 0 1 5" would set channel 9 to use
SoundFont 0, bank 1 and preset 5. Once you get the bank and SoundFont
set for a given channel you can use the "prog chan num" command if all
you want to change is the program number. Cheers.
        Josh Green