Thanks Aere, Bill and Peter, they look like great tips and i'll
look forward to exploring them!  I realized i could be spamming a
development list with a user question, but i didn't bump into a
more basic forum.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Peter Billam wrote:
> Greetings.  bfc0713 wrote:
> 
> > I recently got an m-audio 88es going with Linux/jack/fluid-synth
> > mostly to just play live.
> 
> Very much like my setup :-) except I work on one host so use alsamidi.
> 
> > how do people setup their favorite tones to be in the default
> > 1st 16 channels?  Do they make their own sound font file, or
> > is there some sort of tone-slot manipulation that I'm missing?
> 
> I'd do two ways: either with a file piped into muscript
>   $ cat foo
>   midi channel 0 patch 35
>   midi channel 1 bank 87,65 patch 56
>   midi channel 3 patch 4 pan 20 chorus 70
>   midi channel 4 patch 11 pan 80
> etc; and then, before playing, use it with
>   $ muscript -midi foo | aplaymidi -
> 
> or if you need more control of your controllers, with midiedit:
>   $ muscript -midi foo > foo.mid
>   $ midiedit foo.mid
> and then, before playing, use it with
>   $ aplaymidi foo.mid
> 
> See:
>   http://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
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>  from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
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