[fluid-dev] Fluidsynth instrument attenuation

[Edenyard]

I'd be grateful if someone here could kindly unravel a bit of a mystery 
in Fluid Synth for me regarding instrument attenuation.

I've been making a new organ soundfont using samples from the excellent 
new Silver Octopus romantic set and I'm now tryingto get the right 
balance between the various ranks by adjusting the instrument 
attenuation for each instrument. I've found quite a bit of conflicting 
information in different places about the relationship between what the 
attenuation setting is set at and what actual attenuation Fluid Synth 
(and others) actually apply to the instrument.

Also, it seems as though the relationship has changed sometime over the 
last few releases. I've tried googling and get presented with quite a 
lot of programming type stuff that unfortunately leaves me rather in the 
dark as a non-programmer.

So - in a nutshell, is 10dB of attenuation as set going to give me 10dB 
of actual attenuation for my instrument, or is it something else? Also, 
which version of FS should I be using to get the right answers?

In case it matters, I'm using Jorgan in conjunction with FS 1.0.6 on a 
Linux Slackware system running a 2.4 kernel - although this may get 
updated as part of the mods I'm doing.

Sorry if this question is really trivial, but it's stumping me at 
present! Thanks in anticipation for any help.

Cheers,
Gerald.