I have encountered this sort of thing many times, and it just seems to
be the 'nature' of the beast' - even with General MIDI.
When a particular musician creates a piece of music, it is finely tuned
to the particular synthesizer (and soundfont) being used.
When you play it with a different sy
I suspect that each time a MIDI file is loaded in FluidSynth, it
initializes all the controllers to known default values.
There currently aren't any commands within the shell to play MIDI files.
If there was, it would be possible to say something like "play my.mid" and
then do your CC commands af