2010-08-08 23:42, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas skrev: > On Sunday, August 8, 2010, David Henningsson wrote: >>>>> SF2 (SoundFont) files (like GeneralUser, FluidR3,...) have bank numbers >>>>> < 127 for melodic sounds and 128 for Drum kits, as recommended by the >>>>> SoundFont specification [5]. It is necessary to map the MIDI Bank >>>>> Select numbers to the SF2 bank numbers, because they won't always >>>>> match. The sf2 spec says that "The special case of a General MIDI >>>>> percussion bank is handled conventionally by a wBank value of 128. If >>>>> the value in either field is not a valid MIDI value of zero through >>>>> 127, or 128 for wBank, the preset cannot be played but should be >>>>> maintained." >>> >>> I want to remark the above quotation from the SF2 specification. SF2 bank >>> numbers for melodic channels are numbers in the range 0 to 127, 7 bits. >> >> 128 for wBank. I saw nothing about that in your proposal, or if the drum >> MIDI channel should be handled in another way than the rest of the >> channels, could you elaborate on that? > > Melodic channels means all channels except the drum channel. Channel#10 is > the > MIDI drum channel number reserved in the GM specification, and all the other > extensions.
This is not true according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MIDI_standards - neither GS, XG and GM2 specify channel #10 as the one and only drum channel. > SF2 Bank 128 is only intended to be applied on the MIDI drum > channel, not on melodic channels. It is well explained in the SF2 > specification and appendix documents. I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Is your proposal that we ignore CC0 and CC32 for channel #10 and hard-code it to 128? // David _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
