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&#39;m using various &quot;vintage&quot; keyboard patches I found on the web.  I&#39;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&#39;t want them out there, I assume they&#39;d be down. But that doesn&#39;t mean anything necessarily:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm">http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.learjeff.net/sf/sf.html">http://www.learjeff.net/sf/sf.html</a><br><a href="http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/piano_soundfonts/198-vl-1_wurlitzer_vs.html">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">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&#39;m really only using the -b3 switch at the moment. I anticipate that I will branch out soon.<br>
<br>Re: control, I&#39;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&#39;t already have. I suppose if I ever needed more than 16 patches, I&#39;d need to do something like that.<br>
<br clear="all">-----<br>Luke Peterson<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Andrew C <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:countfuzzball@gmail.com">countfuzzball@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hey Luke,</div>
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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>Andrew.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Luke Peterson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:luke.peterson@gmail.com" target="_blank">luke.peterson@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">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&#39;t get hit in the head by a beer at my next show.<br>

<br>Any tools out there that&#39;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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