Dave Phillips wrote: 
Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
  
fluidsynth (with or without qsynth) will obviously play SF2 files very 
well -- but it eats up the entire MIDI bank, it refuses to operate on 
less than 16 MIDI channels.  My keyboard controller will transmit on 
only 16 channels.  I am not going to give up my entire keyboard 
controller range to fluidsynth. 

Any better SF2 players which will do Jack?  Anyone have a Timidity++ 
command line to try?  Options ???
    

Have you considered SoundCrab ?

    http://www.anticore.org/jucetice/?page_id=7

Best,

dp
I don't believe it.  Four good and simple ways to get this done!  I haven't done more than fool a bit with VST, but this may push me there :-)

J.E.B.