[LAU] Alternative Fluidsynth Manager

[lanas]

Le Mer, 25 Avr 2007 11:31:14 +0200,
Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> a écrit :

> Yeah, Paul Davis only talked about DAWs, so a new soundfont-player is
> much easier! And there aren't enough different soundfont-formats
> available, you will probably invent your own?

Als ich hab' geschreibt, ich weiß gar nichts über soundfonts und alles.

> I don't get your problem. fluidsynth reacts quite well on
> midi-control. Just adjust the individual volume/pan/chorus/reverb
> with the corresponding midi-messages and you will get what you want.
> Why do you think it is easier to have that in a separate gui (like
> qsynth) instead of being stored in your rosegarden/muse/<any other 
> midi-sequencer>-session?

MuSE is out of the question because it takes seconds to redraw its
screen under FC6 x86_64.  I used MuSE and liked it years ago, but
presently it is simply impossible to use.

Rosegarden ?  I should give it a try.  Now I'm using Seq24 and while
it's not perfect it conveys some simplicity which I like.  Seq24 does
not interface with fluidsynth, I think.  Or does it ?  Maybe I should
do without QSynth and try to use fluidsynth directly with Seq24 but
then, as far as trying out sounds and just having fun, I wonder how
pratical the command-line interface is.  With QSynth I just click on a
different sound and inside maybe 2 second (time to grab the mouse,
etc...) I have a new sound.

Better yet, explore with QSynth and have a setup with command-line
fluidsynth for recall and playing of sequences.  A Perl script here and
there ought to glue things together.

You seem to point to the possibility that a single sf archive can use
different volume controls since each sound has a MIDI channel and for
each channel a MIDI volume control can be set.  That's nice to know.  I
mean, not to flatten all MIDI notes, but a global volume control that
preserves individual velocity expression of single notes.

Following the same thought, each MIDI channel could be routed thru a
reverb/chorus.  But then, there could be a lot of jack racks on the
screen while if you compare with Zyn, this functionality is neatly
contained inside the same app.

Tschüß.