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<div>Well, the main benefit of having all the soundfonts in one soundfont where you can just change programs, is that you only need one channel for the soundfont, instead of 4 different channels for each instrument. The bristol b3 uses 3 channels for the upper, lower manuals and pedalboard, so that's 3 channels taken.</div>
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<div>All in all, it just makes for more efficent usage of the 16 channels available to you. Of course if you're happy with your current set-up, why change? ;-)</div>
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<div>One word about swami, I've found that it can be a buggy app for no reason at all. Save very often is my advice!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Luke Peterson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke.peterson@gmail.com" target="_blank">luke.peterson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi Andrew-<br><br>I will look into swami. It would be good for me to learn how to do this myself. Thank you for the offer.<br>
<br>As far as the soundfonts go, I'm using various "vintage" keyboard patches I found on the web. I'm not sure of some of their licensing situations exactly ... links to the the latter two exist on enough reputable websites that if their creator didn't want them out there, I assume they'd be down. But that doesn't mean anything necessarily:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm" target="_blank">http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.learjeff.net/sf/sf.html" target="_blank">http://www.learjeff.net/sf/sf.html</a><br>
<a href="http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/piano_soundfonts/198-vl-1_wurlitzer_vs.html" target="_blank">http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/piano_soundfonts/198-vl-1_wurlitzer_vs.html</a><br><a href="http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/piano_soundfonts/dsix_magic.html" target="_blank">http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/piano_soundfonts/dsix_magic.html</a><br>
<br>As for bristol I have played around with many of the available synths, but I'm really only using the -b3 switch at the moment. I anticipate that I will branch out soon.<br><br>Re: control, I've been setting each patch to its own channel and just flipping the global channel on my controller to get sound from each one. I will experiment with your program select suggestion and see whether it gives me anything I don't already have. I suppose if I ever needed more than 16 patches, I'd need to do something like that.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Andrew C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:countfuzzball@gmail.com" target="_blank">countfuzzball@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>As far as I know, the only way to do what you want is to open each soundfont with swami and edit the volume of each soundfont by hand. Then (this would be a personal preference) pack it all into one 128 instrument bank and then switch instruments via program select midi messages.</div>
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<div>Out of interest, which soundfonts/bristol synths are you using? If the soundfonts are freely available/redistributable, I might download them and try and normalise them for you.</div>
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<div>On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Luke Peterson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke.peterson@gmail.com" target="_blank">luke.peterson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>Howdy folks,<br><br>I am in need of wisdom: I have a dozen or so soundfonts I play in a live performance situation, each with their own average, max, and min dbs. I need to normalize each of these soundfonts to an average gain and similar range, so that I don't get hit in the head by a beer at my next show.<br>
<br>Any tools out there that'll let me do this? I am playing through qsynth/fluidsynth and have a master gain but nothing (afaics) that allows me to give a preset gain with each patch -- so I need to (i think) unpack and re-build each soundfont with a goal volume range in mind, then use the master gain in qsynth to bring me up to a normal volume with bristol (which I also use, and is independently adjustable).<br>
<br>Any advice is appreciated.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Luke<br><br clear="all">-----<br><font color="#888888">Luke Peterson<br></font><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>
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