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 > "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman > from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 > > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-dev mailing list > fluid-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev > _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev