Re: [fluid-dev] FluidSynth 1.0.6 "Music to my ears"

[Gerald Pye]

Josh Green wrote:
> I'm proud to announce that FluidSynth 1.0.6 "Music to my ears" is now
> available for download.  Of particular note is that many synthesis bugs
> have been fixed....

        Many thanks, Josh, for that!

	I was hoping that the new version would solve another problem that I'm having, 
but it hasn't - and I hasten to add that I don't believe that the problem I'm 
having is attributable to Fluid in any case. But I'd appreciate any ideas as to 
how to solve it:

	I've assembled myself a soundfont (using Swami 0.9.2) which is made up from 
.WAV sound samples from two different sources. Unfortunately, it seems that the 
samples from one source were recorded at about 10% of the level of those from 
the other source and I'm having great difficulty in working out how to balance 
them - they ought to sound roughly the same level in the finished soundfont, but 
obviously they don't!

	Using Swami, I've tried adjusting the attenuation ('Vol Envelope' tab) of the 
presets that are too quiet but setting the attenuation to negative levels (i.e., 
increasing the gain) doesn't seem to have any effect. Selecting positive values 
of attenuation makes the preset quieter, as expected.

	Since the number of quiet presets is much smaller than the number of loud ones, 
it makes sense (or so I thought!) to bring the quiet ones up to the level of the 
loud ones but I don't seem to be able to achieve that. I also don't want 
everything to end up down in the noise and quantising distortion by running at 
too low a level.

	Does anyone have any useful pointers as to how I can fix this problem? I 
appreciate that this isn't necessarily anything to do with Fluid as such, but 
Fluid is the one thing that's making my project at all possible so I hope I'm 
not offending anyone by posting this query here!

        Cheers,

                Gerald.