Re: [fluid-dev] complexity of soundfont synthesis engine

2011-09-20 Thread S. Christian Collins
Hi Michael, I have responded to your individual questions below: On 09/19/2011 04:20 PM, Michael Geis wrote: We were under the (probably naive) impression that all a sampler needs to do is loop over wave tables and apply envelopes. Seeing that the soundfont specification actually allows for gr

[fluid-dev] complexity of soundfont synthesis engine

2011-09-20 Thread jimmy
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Michael Geis > wrote: > > I posted a question on using fluidsynth to extract .sf2 > sounds to .wav files a few weeks ago. The answers I received > indicated I had to get a better grasp of the subject matter > and as a consequence I had to think over wh

Re: [fluid-dev] complexity of soundfont synthesis engine

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Geis
>Also note that the strength of the note-on often affects the output, e g >on a piano sound, a weak note has less treble than a strong one. > >> My apologies if I am somewhat lacking coherence here, I am still trying >> to get a decent grasp on the subject matter. > >I'm not exactly sure what woul

Re: [fluid-dev] Another application using FluidSynth announced

2011-09-20 Thread David Henningsson
On 09/18/2011 06:55 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2011, Peter Hanappe wrote: Second draft. I'd like an ok from both Pedro's and Peter before I put it up as an "official project standpoint". You've got my ok. Cheers, P Mine too. Glad we finally got to something

Re: [fluid-dev] Should playback_callback receive MIDI file events?

2011-09-20 Thread Matt Giuca
> > So the question is what to do about the SET_TEMPO event? I think the most > reasonable at this point would be to both handle it and pass it on to the > callback, even if that would disable the callback's possibility to > override/handle the set_tempo event itself. > Yes, but a more general que

Re: [fluid-dev] complexity of soundfont synthesis engine

2011-09-20 Thread David Henningsson
On 09/19/2011 11:20 PM, Michael Geis wrote: Greetings, I posted a question on using fluidsynth to extract .sf2 sounds to .wav files a few weeks ago. The answers I received indicated I had to get a better grasp of the subject matter and as a consequence I had to think over what I am doing. Sorry

Re: [fluid-dev] Should playback_callback receive MIDI file events?

2011-09-20 Thread David Henningsson
On 09/20/2011 02:31 AM, Matt Giuca wrote: Please do send all events (including meta events). Perhaps you don't need them with your Midi files, but I have work with Midi segments that changes tempo (perhaps even time signature 3/4 <-> 4/4) on the fly. So looping back will need t