Re: [fluid-dev] New patch: polyphonic key pressure (aftertouch)

[Kjetil Matheussen]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Marcus Weseloh <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

I've added a test MIDI file and soundfont to the ticket:

https://sourceforge.net/p/fluidsynth/tickets/50/#b976

And Kjetil: if you really want to use the key pressure as volume control by default in a non-standard way, you could always hack the modulator into your fluidsynth copy. A patch is attached. It gives you Poly Pressure to Initial Modulation, in a positive concave unipolar mapping. That means that positive key pressure values reduce the initial volume of the sound (based on the velocity of the note on). So it's basically an inversed _expression_ controller, just on a single note. But I think something like that should really only be a hack and not part of FluidSynth... not even as a configuration option.

Great! The patch + hack works perfectly as far as I can see (except [1]). Applied like this:

patch -p1 < polyphonic_pressure.v1.patch

patch -p1 < poly_to_att_hack.patch

patch -p1 < lower_boundary_check.patch

The poly_to_att_hack patch is so small that I don't see any reason why this can't be #ifdefed into the official repository. It's extremely nice for those of us who uses libfluidsynth in another program as a synthesizer.

[1] When calling 'fluid_synth_key_pressure' I had to use 0 as full volume, and 127 as silent.

Another thing (not related to poly aftertourch), is there any particular reason this line:

"FLUIDSYNTH_API void fluid_event_clear(fluid_event_t* evt);"

isn't included in one of files in include/ ? (sorry if this has been asked before)