Re: [LAU] Better SF2 player wanted

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Jonathan E. Brickman
<jeb@joshuacorps.org> wrote:
> fluidsynth (with or without qsynth) will obviously play SF2 files very well
> -- but it eats up the entire MIDI bank, it refuses to operate on less than
> 16 MIDI channels.  My keyboard controller will transmit on only 16
> channels.  I am not going to give up my entire keyboard controller range to
> fluidsynth.
>

fluidsynth-dssi and ghostess.

An example:
$ ghostess -2 -chan 4 fluidsynth-dssi.so
This will open two instances of fluidsynth-dssi on channels four
and five (ghostess numbers channels from 0 to 15).

Slightly OT:
In a previous post you stated that MIDI routers do not make for
on-the-fly changes in live work. I don't see why they don't.

Imagine a MIDI router with one input and two outputs (e.g. qmidiroute):
The keyboard controllers output is connected to the one input of qmidiroute.
Qmidiroute may filter all messages arriving on certain channels,
sending them to the first output. Unmatched events go to output 2

Then no interaction with the router is required, switching between the
channels on the keyboard controller is all needed.

greetings,
d
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Received on Thu Oct 15 04:15:04 2009