Re: [fluid-dev] Re: invalid instrument/drum selection problem

[Edenyard]

Jimmy wrote:

I have assumed
> that channel 10 is for drums, but what do I know ;-)

One thing's certain - you know a lot more about it than I do!

> Anyway, I only guess that there is a flag somewhere
> that Qsynth uses to start up FluidSynth with 32
> channels.  I got some style files playing here showing
> drum changes on (Qsynth) channel 10 and 26 as well as
> other instruments on parallel channels.  Basically two
> set of 16 channels (stereo sounds???).  Here a quick
> check from "man fluidsynth":
>
>   -K, --midi-channels=[num]     The number of midi
> channels [default = 16]
>
>   -L, --audio-channels=[num]    The number of stereo
> audio channels [default = 1]
>
> Maybe that could help you with the 16 channel limit,
> at least with FluidSynth, not sure about other
> SoftSynth or hardware synth should you care about
> compatibility.

I haven't really told you my whole story - mainly because I didn't want 
to clutter up the thread. But since Jorgan has been mentioned just 
recently, I'll come clean and say that that's what I'm using. I start up 
Fluid with -K 48 to get 3 lots of 16 iput channels and all 48 channels 
are used for sounding notes. I'm not sure that Jorgan can be told to 
skip certain channels in the groups of 16, which is why I became anxious 
when I thought you were talking about making channel 10 drums only. I 
don't use Qsynth so I can't really comment on that.

One of these days I need to crack this Jack thing that I see mentioned 
so often. I've heard that Jack's reverb is better than Fluid's, but then 
I'm using an old-ish Fluid and I seem to remember Josh mentioning some 
improvements to the reverb in his latest release of Fluid so I ought to 
try that first.

My problem is that, being somewhat computationally-challenged, it takes 
me ages to get something working and then I'm reluctant to tinker with 
it in case I break it again!

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Gerald.