[fluid-dev] MIDI Bank Select Test result

[Bernd Casper]

Hello Pedro,

many thanks for your essential efforts into bank select mechanisms.

 

I've tested the bank select mechanism in a jOrgan real-time scenario.

I understood GS mode supports 128 banks numbered 0-127, each with 128 patches numbered 0-127.

I understood I've nothing to do with the "midi.bank-select" switch, when I want to use GS mode for default.

The est soundfonts contained bank 0 patch 0 and 1, and bank 7 patch 6 and 7.

 

According to your proposal I used the following message matrix for the default (GS) bank select ("CC32 is ignored"):

CC00 = bank number (decimal, like numbering in the soundfonts)

CC192 = patch number (decimal, like numbering in the soundfonts)

 

Thus, my message sequences were:

 

For bank 0 patches 0 and 1 select:

CC00=0 | CC192=0

CC00=0 | CC192=1

 

For bank 7 patches 6 and 7 select:

CC00=7 | CC192=6

CC00=7 | CC192=7

 

Selecting bank 0 patches worked correctly, selecting bank 7 patches gave the following error messages:

fluidsynth: warning: Instrument not found on channel 0 [bank=896 prog=6], substituted [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: Instrument not found on channel 0 [bank=896 prog=7], substituted [bank=0 prog=0]

 

What I'm doing wrong?

 

Regards

Bernd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Absender: Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Empfänger: fluid-dev

Zeit: 2010-08-09, 00:21:43

Betreff: Re: MIDI Bank Select proposal (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: Son of ticket#65)

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* New setting:
name = "midi.bank-select"
type = string
values = gs, gm, xg, mma, awe32 (Note: bank number for melodic channels only)
  gs: ignore LSB (CC#32) messages; bank=MSB
  gm: ignore LSB and MSB messages; bank=0 always
  xg: ignore MSB (CC#0) messages; bank=LSB
  mma: bank=128*MSB+LSB
  awe32: synonym of gs
default = gs

* SYSEX MIDI mode change messages.
Upon reception/playback from SMF of some SYX messages, the "midi.bank-select"
current value can be changed to gm, gs or xg.

Regards,
Pedro