[LAU] Setting programs in Calf Fluidsynth

[Bill Purvis]

A technical question for those familiar with MIDI coding, in particular 
with Fluid.

I've been writing a little program to simplify selecting instruments 
with Calf Fluidsynth.
With the standard General Midi voices it works fine, but I wanted to be 
able to select the
additional voices from the Fluid3-GM.sf2 patches. I managed to figure 
out the bank/patch
numbers using Swami (is there an easier way to list them?) and modified 
my code to send
bank select parameters (0xB0, 32, bank#) before the patch number but it 
doesn't seem to
affect Fluid. It just sets to the equivalent standard GM voice. I can 
set the the additional
ones by clicking the Fluid voice select buttons, but it's tedious 
scrolling up and down the
long list of voices. My program divides the voices into categories and 
displays the patches
in that category (defined by a simple text file).

So, am I using the right codes for bank select with Fluid? My list of 
midi parameters says
0xb0+chan, 00, MSB, 0xb0+chan, 32, LSB for bank selects.

Also, I'd like to select the drum kits, which seem to have a bank of 128 
which I assume
needs setting the MSB=1, but does that apply for Fluid?

Many thanks if you can help.

Bill

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| Bill Purvis                            |
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