Re: [fluid-dev] using channel 9

[Ken Ellinwood]

Your soundfont probably does not have bank 128, which is where the percussion 
sounds are in a GM soundfont.  If it did, the drums would get assigned 
automatically when the soundfont is loaded.

Another possibility to solve the space issue is to load the soundfont 
(surrounded by quotes) when invoking fluidsynth i.e., from the command line, 
not the fluidsynth shell.  Or you could create a symlink to the soundfount that 
doesn't have spaces in the name of the symlink.

Ken

--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Ebrahim Mayat <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Ebrahim Mayat <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [fluid-dev] using channel 9
> To: "Felix Krause" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "FluidSynth mailing list" <address@hidden>
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 5:47 PM
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Felix Krause wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I use fluidsynth with shell commands, and I have two
> basic problems with it:
> > 
> > - when I load a SoundFont, channel 9 is not assigned
> an instrument. I know that this is the percussion channel,
> but I have no experience with midis, and so I have no idea
> how to enable this channel to play a normal instrument.
> 
> Firstly, to display the list of loaded soundfonts enter
> "fonts" in the fluidsynth console. This will give
> you the numerical ID of the font(s) that are loaded.
> Then, to display the list of available instruments for a
> font enter "inst font:" where "font" is
> the numerical ID determined in step 1.
> Now to change the instrument assigned to channel 9 enter
> "select chan sfont bank prog " where
> "chan" is "9" in your case,
> "sfont" is the numerical ID, "bank" is
> the bank number and "prog" is the program number
> 
> You can also type "help all" for a listing of all
> the available help options.
> 
> > - I can't get spaces in a path as argument for the
> load command. Adding a backslash in front of every space
> doesn't work. Quoting the whole path doesn't work.
> Is there any possibility for using spaces in a path?
> 
> Change the name of your file so that there are no spaces in
> it.
> > 
> 
> E
>