Re: [fluid-dev] Linking MIDI files with sf2 files

[Premkiran Mannava]

hi,

 

with fluidsynth 1.07a I could play MIDI files from the shell giving command line arguments.  I have chosen a MIDI file which is playing if it has only melodic instrument i.e. say piano or guitar strings.  I have a MIDI file with both precurssion and melodic, it doesnot sound both when I paly it with this version.  Can you tell me which version of fluidsynth can play a multi timbre - basically both melodic and drum kit at a time on its own on windows say using a dsound driver? some of the MIDI files I used are only playing drums and some are playing mere melodic without droms!!  What does this say?

 

I have changed soundfont files basically .sf2 files and tested fluidsynth but with different instruments I could not play the melodic and drum kit as it is together.....

 

Can you suggest me a possible solution for this?  I am struggling on this from more than a week to look through the code and find the loophole...  Either you can suggest me a solution with that of changing the required parameters in the code if needed... even that would help my investigatiion to get a intact code

 

regards,

PRem

 

On 4/21/06, Josh Green <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:28 +0530, Premkiran Mannava wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I  have some downloaded code of parsing the MIDI files as well as
> soundfont files.  Now how do I select the preset and bank initially
> basing on the MIDI events.  I basically donot know which instrument it
> is playing initially right!  Suppose my MIDI file events are playing
> a xylophone... then how do I recognize from soundfont that its a
> xylophone?  How do I identify the instrument of the sample?
> Regards,
> Prem
>

I'm not exactly certain what you are asking, but I'll try to answer your
questions ;)  Each preset in a SoundFont has a MIDI bank and preset
number associated with it.  When playing a MIDI file through a SoundFont
synthesizer, it should be enough to send MIDI bank and program change
events for the instrument you desire to play.  Are you using FluidSynth
as a shared library in a program, from the command line or within
another application?  Changing the bank:preset of FluidSynth depends on
how you are using it.  SoundFont presets are also identified by a name,
which will give you a better idea of what the sound is.  This name can
be whatever the designer of the SoundFont chooses so a Xylophone won't
necessarily be exactly named that.  There are some standards for mapping
specific program numbers to certain instruments, General MIDI is one of
those standards.  This is a standard mapping of certain sounds to
numbers.  Hope something in there covers what you were asking.
       Josh Green

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