Re: [fluid-dev] presets

[Peter Billam]

Greetings.  bfc0713 wrote:

> I recently got an m-audio 88es going with Linux/jack/fluid-synth
> mostly to just play live.

Very much like my setup :-) except I work on one host so use alsamidi.

> how do people setup their favorite tones to be in the default
> 1st 16 channels?  Do they make their own sound font file, or
> is there some sort of tone-slot manipulation that I'm missing?

I'd do two ways: either with a file piped into muscript
  $ cat foo
  midi channel 0 patch 35
  midi channel 1 bank 87,65 patch 56
  midi channel 3 patch 4 pan 20 chorus 70
  midi channel 4 patch 11 pan 80
etc; and then, before playing, use it with
  $ muscript -midi foo | aplaymidi -

or if you need more control of your controllers, with midiedit:
  $ muscript -midi foo > foo.mid
  $ midiedit foo.mid
and then, before playing, use it with
  $ aplaymidi foo.mid

See:
  http://www.pjb.com.au/muscript/index.html#midi
  http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/midiedit.html
  http://www.pjb.com.au/muscript/gm.html

Hope this helps,  Peter Billam

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