On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David Henningsson <di...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 11/29/2011 09:14 PM, Craig wrote: >> >> My question is, gleaning the fluidsynth source and docs it appears that >> fluidsynth can handle midi channels above the 0-15, given that >> information, how does a midi file format hand of a midi event with a >> standard note on -> 144 + midi channel, message1, message2, and time >> stamp. If I increas the 144 + midi channel, I end up in 160 land which >> is a different midi event. >> >> I am a 50 year old man who write symphonies. I would love to have >> access to more that 16 channels. How does fluidsynth do this? > > > Hi Craig and thanks for your interest in FluidSynth! > > The MIDI file format does not support more than 16 channels - this is a > limitation in the MIDI file format, not FluidSynth. You'll have to use > special API calls in order to make use of more than 16 channels. > > That said; XG level 2 and level 3 seems to support more than 16 channels. > Does anybody know if there is a MIDI file meta event that would switch > "group of MIDI channels for this track" or something? I haven't found > anything myself, but it would be very useful if it existed.
Each group of 16 MIDI channels is usually known as a "MIDI port". There is a SMF meta-event to specify a specific port name for each track: http://home.roadrunner.com/~jgglatt/tech/midifile/port.htm Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
