30 Jul
2004
30 Jul
'04
6:47 p.m.
On Friday 30 July 2004 06:02 am, Steve Harris wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:10:32 +0100, tim hall
wrote:
Hardware synths have a detuning parameter so it's an expectation for somebody
coming from that world.
IIRC Eastern orchestras tune to 438 and some Japanese stuff used to actually
ship tuned thusly. I was surprised not to see a master tune param in the
fluidsynth man page.
Seriously? That's a pretty gruesome hack. It'd do the job but it creates more
problems than it solves.
<OT>
If anybody knows how to do this with QSynth / Fluid / Soundfonts
generally I'd love to know about it. This is one of the things I most
hate about soundfonts.
</OT>
pitchwheel? (seriously) DLS or GM defines a standard range for pitchweel,
so you could write/beg/borrow/steal some code to send a onetime pitchbend
message over alsasequencer that would retune all the synths to a
particular A tuning.
Assuming the soundfont engine supports pitchbend, but I would imagine it
does.
FWIW my "less trivial" DSSI synth example supports retuning A, but in all
other ways its completely useless :)
- Steve