Re: [fluid-dev] Program change problems with fluidsynth

[Reinhold Hoffmann]

Hi Francesco,

I think the issue is created with the converstion tool from the .abc to the 
.mid file. 

All midi Program Changes (also those for track/chn 1,2,3) are placed to track 
4. 

When playing the first Note On of track 1,2,3 at that point in time the Program 
Change settings of track 1,2,3 are undefined for the
playing program. Therefore the default setting Piano is used. Later (not 
timewise later but from an execution of the playing
software) when playing track 4 the Program Change of track 1,2,3/chn 1,2,3 are 
set to be 21 which will modify the sound to organ for
all notes to be played later.

To my knowledge a Program Change of a track/chn should be set within the track 
and not outside the track. Moving the Program Change
to the appropriate track solves the issue.

I have checked the issue because we at Notation Software (www.notation.com) use 
the fluidsynth libraries, too. From the fluidsynth
perspective I believe fluidsynth is fine. Our software acts as such that 
Program Change is only allowed within the same track. With
our software in your example track 1,2,3 play as piano throughout, track 4 as 
organ throughout.

Hope this analysis help

Reinhold   


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Von: fluid-dev [mailto:address@hidden Im Auftrag von Francesco Ariis
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017 11:31
An: address@hidden
Betreff: [fluid-dev] Program change problems with fluidsynth

Hello fluidsynth users/devs,

    today I tried to render a midi file (attached) with fluidsynth via command 
line:

    fluidsynth -a alsa -F audio.ogg -T oga /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 
hymn1.mid

I attach the first few seconds of the audio file too. As you can hear, the 
first note (the first beat I should say) is a piano
sound, while subsequent notes are a church organ.

When I render it with another software (say, llms, attached), every note is a 
church organ. What happens?

In case it might be helpful: the midi was generated from an .abc file, which I 
attach too.

If you need more infos, don't hesitate to ask -F