Re: [fluid-dev] No reverb with piano soundfont + qsynth

[Garth Hjelte]

At 12:06 PM 9/28/2013, you wrote:

>Adam informed us that he was using Qsynth. My assumption is that he has not 
>gone into the soundfont to see if these settings have been created but is just 
>activating the Qsynth reverb and chorus options and hearing no effect. Hence 
>my advice to get a soundfont editor and examine the internals of the soundfont 
>to see if reverb and chorus have definitions.

OK, makes sense, I guess. What are the QSynth Rev/Ch options? Do they just 
"allow" the rev/ch but only if they are specified in the SF itself (kind of 
like a master override)?

Is there a list published that documents what SF parameters FluidSynth 
supports, or is it just assumed that it supports all of them? And if so, does 
that include any modulators in the 'imod' chunk (support in SF Spec "2.3")?

>This is probably an issue with the soundfont. Both Reverb and Chorus need to 
>be defined within the instrument or preset of the soundfont. Use a soundfont 
>editor to add the Reverb and Chorus % values to the soundfont definition to 
>solve this issue. 
>
>Isn't that what the poster said? If the SF has a reverb or chorus setting, it 
>can be in no other place than the Preset ('pgen') or Instrument ('igen') 
>areas. Or are you telling the poster that he's mistaken and the piano has no 
>Chorus or Reverb? 
>
>>I'm using qsynth and I've installed a nice piano soundfont from, 
>> http://zenvoid.org/audio/ 
>>Sadly, any reverb or chorus setting is ignored. This can easily be 
>>duplicated with virtual keyboard. 
>>Is this a problem with fluidsyth, the soundfont or something else? 


Garth Hjelte
Sampler User