Re: [fluid-dev] Question - selecting font/bank/sound

[Ken Ellinwood]

I don't think its possible to select programs from more than one soundfont in
the current implementation of fluidsynth using MIDI commands.  It appears that
fluidsynth keeps track of the banks in each soundfont separately, rather than
internally managing a single set of banks into which all sounfont
banks+programs get loaded.  When loading soundfonts onto an SB Live card, you
can give a bank offset, so that two soundfonts that internally use the same
bank(s) can both be used without conflicts by specifying different bank offsets
during each load.

At one point it was suggested that fluidsynth also manage
soundfonts/banks/programs this way, but it never got implemented.

Ken

--- David McNab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've asked this question on ALSA and Linux Audio lists, got no response, 
> hoping someone here might take a moment to help.
> 
> I want to assign different midi channels to different 
> soundfont/bank/program settings.
> 
> I know this can be done via the fluidsynth shell with the
>   'select <channel> <font> <bank> <program>'
> shell command (via CLI and via server socket), but I have not been
> able to do this via pure midi commands over ALSA
> 
> Can someone please explain the MIDI commands needed to achieve this?
> 
> I tried the following combinations, but none of them worked:
>   1) Bank select msb: value = soundfont index
>      Bank select lsb: value = bank number
>      Program change
>   2) Bank select msb: value = bank number
>      Bank select lsb: value = soundfont index
>      Program change
> 
> I did manage to select bank/program within a single soundfont via:
>      Bank select msb: value = bank number
>      Program change
> 
> But I have not been able to specify font/bank/program.
> 
> Can someone please help
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> 
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