Re: [fluid-dev] using channel 9

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Felix Krause wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I use fluidsynth with shell commands, and I have two basic problems  
> with it:
>
> - when I load a SoundFont, channel 9 is not assigned an instrument.  
> I know that this is the percussion channel, but I have no experience  
> with midis, and so I have no idea how to enable this channel to play  
> a normal instrument.

Firstly, to display the list of loaded soundfonts enter "fonts" in the  
fluidsynth console. This will give you the numerical ID of the font(s)  
that are loaded.
Then, to display the list of available instruments for a font enter  
"inst font:" where "font" is the numerical ID determined in step 1.
Now to change the instrument assigned to channel 9 enter "select chan  
sfont bank prog " where "chan" is "9" in your case, "sfont" is the  
numerical ID, "bank" is the bank number and "prog" is the program number

You can also type "help all" for a listing of all the available help  
options.

> - I can't get spaces in a path as argument for the load command.  
> Adding a backslash in front of every space doesn't work. Quoting the  
> whole path doesn't work. Is there any possibility for using spaces  
> in a path?

Change the name of your file so that there are no spaces in it.
>

E