Re: [fluid-dev] More than 16 instruments?

[David Henningsson]

On 11/16/2013 08:53 PM, Dave wrote:
> David,
> 
> Thank you for the reply. I should have realized the 16 channel is a midi
> limit, not Fluidsynth. In looking through the Fluidsynth on-line
> documentation, I see that there are direct "noteon" and "noteoff" commands.
> Would it be possible to drive the engine with a config file (instead of a
> midi file) containing these commands? 

Not really, sorry. The closest thing is the sequencer, but that would
require you to write code for using the sequencer - there is no "config
file" way to use that either.

> I suppose I could just try it, but I
> don't see a method to specify when a note is played (or turned off). So I
> assume these commands are for real-time devices, not for a file-based
> approach.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
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> On 11/15/2013 03:14 AM, Dave wrote:
>> I am using FluidSynth to create raw sound files from midi files (LOVE 
>> FluidSynth, works great!). The midi file are generated from an 
>> algorithm, and can contain multiple tracks and channels. The program 
>> also creates a FluidSynth configuration file which links the channels 
>> to soundfonts and instruments (via the "select" command).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is it possible to have more than 16 instruments? For example, could 
>> two different tracks use channel 0, and somehow assign a different 
>> instrument to each track-channel combination?
> 
> It is possible to have more than 16 instruments within the FluidSynth
> engine, but you would then have to use the engine directly rather than using
> midi files. I e, the problem is that the midi file specification allows for
> 16 channels only (and we have not implemented any non-standard extension
> that would do what you suggest).
> 
> // David
> 
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