Question - selecting soundfonts/banks

Question - selecting soundfonts/banks

[Don Mackie]

Hi,

Can someone please explain to me the relationship between midi 
bank_msb/bank_lsb_prognum, and soundfontnum/bank_lsb/prognum on fluidsynth?

I'm successfully sending prog change events, as well as LSB bank select 
events.

However, I'm also trying to select banks within different soundfonts, by 
sending BANK_SELECT_MSB events, but things are not working.

My code presently sends BANK_SELECT_MSB controller event, then 
BANK_SELECT_LSB controller event, then PBMCHANGE event, in that order.

What do i need to do in my code, so I can reliably select different 
sounds from different banks from different loaded soundfonts?

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Kind regards
David

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Re: Question - selecting soundfonts/banks

[holborn]

Hi

On Viernes 21 Mayo 2004 05:44, Don Mackie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone please explain to me the relationship between midi
> bank_msb/bank_lsb_prognum, and soundfontnum/bank_lsb/prognum on fluidsynth?
>
> I'm successfully sending prog change events, as well as LSB bank select
> events.
>
> However, I'm also trying to select banks within different soundfonts, by
> sending BANK_SELECT_MSB events, but things are not working.
>
> My code presently sends BANK_SELECT_MSB controller event, then
> BANK_SELECT_LSB controller event, then PBMCHANGE event, in that order.
>
> What do i need to do in my code, so I can reliably select different
> sounds from different banks from different loaded soundfonts?

Read this: 

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2003-07/msg00029.html

maybe can help you.



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Re: Question - selecting soundfonts/banks

[Don Mackie]

holborn wrote:

 >>Hi,
 >>
 >>Can someone please explain to me the relationship between midi
 >>bank_msb/bank_lsb_prognum, and soundfontnum/bank_lsb/prognum on
 >>fluidsynth?

 > Read this:
 >
 > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2003-07/msg00029.html
 >
 > maybe can help you.

Thanks, but that didn't get me any further - I can already select banks 
on fluidsynth and emu10k1

What I'm asking is - how do I assign a midi channel to a particular 
voice on a particular bank *within a particular soundfont* ?

So if fluidsynth, or my emu10k1 card, has two or more sound fonts 
loaded, I want to be able to access banks/voices on different soundfonts 
at the same time.

For instance:
  - channel 1 -> font fluid-gm.sf2, bank 000, prog 001
  - channel 2 -> font 2rock9.sf2, bank 008, prog 011
  - ...

I've tried to do this via bank msb, bank lsb and prog change messages 
from my midi keyboard, as well as sending bank msb/lsb controller (and 
prog change) events via the alsa-seq api, but (with fluidsynth at 
least), things are totally not working as one would expect.

Any more suggestions?

Cheers
D



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