Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI commands for reverb/chorus parameters

2016-07-10 Thread Peter Billam
Hi. I wrote: > You could perhaps use one of the unused text_events ? > There's text_event_08 .. text_event_0f to choose from, and you have > all the length you want so could start with a "fluidsynth" string > to cut down on accidents from other software with similar ideas. > Likewise raw_meta

Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI commands for reverb/chorus parameters

2016-07-09 Thread Peter Billam
Greetings Element, List, > At any rate, it seems like using the NRPN portion of MIDI is OK, > which could potentially be used for adding reverb and chorus > parameters (beyond the basics). Yes. You might run into other people using the same NRPN for their own nefarious purposes, though, s

Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI commands for reverb/chorus parameters

2016-07-08 Thread Peter Billam
Greetings. Element writes: > Seems like the MIDI standard doesn't really have a "unregistered" > manufacturer ID though for Sysex which makes things awkward and > I don't think it is worth trying to buy our own ID for $200/yr. I keep dreaming that something like the Free Software Foundation

Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI commands for reverb/chorus parameters

2016-07-08 Thread Peter Billam
cs/index.php http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midimessages.php and various other places... Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Po

Re: [fluid-dev] Play two channels simultaneously

2016-06-12 Thread Peter Billam
Ben Gonzales wrote: > Don't forget, you'll need to create similar rules for all > your other stuff - cc pbend, etc. Working with midiecho, I find that usually I don't want CCs 1,5,11,64,65,66,84 (Modul,Portam,Expr,Pedals) to go through to both channels. It's useful to have separate volume c

Re: [fluid-dev] Play two channels simultaneously

2016-06-12 Thread Peter Billam
m to do whatever needs to be done. If you look how important doubling is in orchestral music it's amazing it's not more discussed in a midi context... Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the par

Re: [fluid-dev] The missing filter

2016-03-10 Thread Peter Billam
g to sustain a low note for a few seconds leaving two hands free to improvise... One CC which should be low-cpu and easy to implement would be cc92 = Tremolo Depth, because it only needs one multiplication and an LFO ... Thanks, Regards, Peter Billam P.S. It's a shame that the midi standar

[fluid-dev] The missing filter

2016-03-10 Thread Peter Billam
n debian stable and am running fluidsynth version 1.1.6 It it a debian-package special build, built for lowest latency ? Why doesn't my fluidsynth do filtering ? Thanks, Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle

Re: [fluid-dev] Akai EWI-USB, Raspberry-Pi, and FluidSynth

2015-10-31 Thread Peter Billam
10 milliseconds latency is acceptable. Of the linux synths, TiMidity doesn't meet this; fluidsynth maybe just meets it, on a fast CPU. All the best with midigurdy. Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle."

Re: [fluid-dev] presets

2015-10-29 Thread Peter Billam
tp://www.pjb.com.au/muscript/index.html#midi http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/midiedit.html http://www.pjb.com.au/muscript/gm.html Hope this helps, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from Th

[fluid-dev] Multiple simultaneous synths ?

2015-04-21 Thread Peter Billam
and associated 'metatable' PiL p.197, which is the classy solution, but not so simple... ) ) Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory

Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth router for program change

2015-02-25 Thread Peter Billam
All that assumes alsa midi, of course ... Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 ___ f

Re: [fluid-dev] Supported Wave/Flac format other than SF2

2015-02-10 Thread Peter Billam
w more controllers (filter?) supported, and the ladspa-plugins etc. Is there a roadmap ? Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman fro

[fluid-dev] ladspa questions...

2014-09-10 Thread Peter Billam
doc/FluidSynth-LADSPA.pdf but that seems to be from 2002 and applies to the Iiwusynth... Could someone give a newbie a tour of the state of ladspa ? Is a hello-world example (at the C-API level) somewhere ? Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "

Re: [fluid-dev] fluid_player_add(synth, '-')

2014-09-02 Thread Peter Billam
d, feel free to write a patch, should be easy > to implement in src/midi/fluid_midi.c, function fluid_player_load. I'll give it a look at some stage, but I am a hopeless C programmer, I've been writing in high-level languages for decades :-( Again: many thanks for your help, Peter Billam

[fluid-dev] fluid_player_add(synth, '-')

2014-08-28 Thread Peter Billam
x27; and slurp into a tmp file ... (I hope this isn't an RTFM...) Thanks again, Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from T

Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

2014-08-26 Thread Peter Billam
d on for 1.3. > The problem is though that some things should be set before creating the > synth (and other objects), such as which audio driver to use, and other > things need to be done afterwards, such as which soundfonts to load. Yup. It's a solvable problem, though. Many tha

Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

2014-08-25 Thread Peter Billam
fluidsynth and its extended-fluidsynth-shell format ... Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 __

[fluid-dev] Config files ?

2014-08-23 Thread Peter Billam
her fluidsynth app adopted a config file format (or environment variable) that I could adopt/reuse/share ? Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical

Re: [fluid-dev] New Lua module; therefore various questions

2014-08-21 Thread Peter Billam
again; I think I'm on my way now. Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 ___

Re: [fluid-dev] New Lua module; therefore various questions

2014-08-20 Thread Peter Billam
, the synth still be given real-time events (like fluid_synth_noteon etc) before fluid_player_join and fluid_player_stop get invoked ? Thanks, Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynma

[fluid-dev] New Lua module; therefore various questions

2014-08-19 Thread Peter Billam
there a way of asking fluidsynth to do the same ? Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 ___