Re: [linux-audio-user] sfc-0.014 Released and horgand new homepage

holborn(a)telefonica.net wrote: I downloaded, compiled and worked with this program all night. It is exactly what I was looking for. It allows me to take my favorite sound font, put a different instrument on a different mixer slot, adjust different volumes, pans, octives settings, transpose settings (to name a few) for each instrument. I appreciate you creating it. It's filled a big gap for my studio. And I'm very excited about it's ability to split the keyboard into eight different instruments. Very nice... I just wanted to mention a few things in case anyone wanted to try this program out in hopes to save you some time. It may just be me, but I didn't understand the "README" that explained how to use it. But it's actually very easy to use. Although, I did notice that the ability to connect to any devices (like midi ports or soft synths) from the program itself wasn't working. But that's no problem. I just used kaconnect after starting up my soft synths and then SoundFontCombi. The approach is actually very easy. I just didn't know how to save "banks". And several hours of careful mixing of sounds was lost in a single mouse click. But I realized that all I had to do was set up each individual mixer with my favorite instruments (by choosing the program number of my choice in each mixer slot), adjust each volume slider and pan pot, octive (or whatever) to to what sounds pleasing. Then go to the upper right feild marked "Name" and give that "set of mixes" a name (just below it you can include "notes"). Here's the important part... when you go to the "banks" menu *do not* left click on a bank. If you do, you will loose all your hard work. Make sure you *right* click a bank to "put" the set of mixes in the chosen bank. Left clicking will *load* already created mixes. So store mixes into banks with a *right* click. You can (then) create a new set of "mixes"... give it a name (and comments if you care to)... go to the "bank" menu and right click a different "bank". You can fill up "banks" of "mixes" this way. Here's the other thing that took me a while to figure out (and lost a lot of good sounds figuring it out) is that you can save the "current mix" as a ".sfc" file on your disk (from the file menu on the main interface of the program), *or* you can save a "set of banks" to a ".sfcb" (bank) file (from the bank --> file menu). Well... when I saved the "current mixes" from the main file menu as a ".sfc" file, the "banks" weren't saved with it. I lost whole "banks" of "mixes" that took me hours to put together. So now, after I create "banks" of "mixes", I then save from the bank --> file menu as a ".sfcb" (bank) file. Here's the good part... you can start the program (and load your favorite banks of mixes) by the command sfc -b YourFavoriteBank.sfcb. I can't see saving anything from the main file menu. I just create banks full of mixes... save banks of mixes... and load banks of mixes on start up. Of course, you can also load banks of mixes while the program is running by going to the bank --> file menu. My impression is that you created the progam to save from the main file menu because it's (supposed to) save all the connections to your devices. That doesn't seem to be working so I don't even use the main file menu. I just load, save and start up the progam via .sfcb files. I hope this will be an aid saving any time for anyone that cares to try out this very good program. Rocco