Re: MIDI Bank Select proposal (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: Son of ticket #65)

[jimmy]

> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:06:12 -0500
> From: "S. Christian Collins" <address@hidden>
> 
> Another option, rather than try to guess what bank select
> mode to use 
> would be to default to the GS standard, but have an option
> to use XG 
> mode--this could even be a switch added to Qsynth easily
> enough for us 
> GUI folks.
> 
> That being said, if the guessing is pretty foolproof, then
> that's 
> probably the best option.
> -~Chris

If such option(s) are provided, please allow dynamic mode change.  I mean so 
that FS can play midi files (or live sequences from keyboard/sequencer) 
continuously without having to restart to get into a different mode 
(raw/GM/GS/XG).  I suppose the virtual-organs folks would prefer to still get 
the bare-metal (raw) mode.

Already mention in my last post, will repeat here.  I have read somewhere that 
there are fairly short sys-ex messages for XG-reset, GS-reset and possibly 
GM-reset.

Jimmy