On Monday, April 23, 2012, you wrote: > Oh, now I see. I'm afraid it does put all percussion onto channel 10,
If you put instrument #3 or #12 or whatever into percussion mode, then I don't think it should be dumping that stuff onto channel 10. Instead, it should treat whatever associated channels as additional percussion instruments, along with instrument #10. > That said, the fix is pretty obvious: as before, I'll use the instrument's > fixed channel if it has one. I had been thinking of that as just an > optimization, implying that it shouldn't be done until everything works. I think you're focusing too much on fixed vs. automatic channels in this. The whole discussion about having instrument #10 default to fixed was a hack to deal with the fact that not everybody necessarily has the percussion checkbox checked in old files. It's a hack to improve backward compatibility for that one special case. For everything else, just go by the percussion checkbox. If it's checked, you have another percussion instrument. If it's not, you don't. The channel shouldn't have to be fixed as long as everything else is playing nice, as it sounds like it is. > That stands to reason, and it doesn't seem too complicated. But I > wouldn't be able to test it, since my soundcard doesn't do GM2. Sure you can. Test it the same way I do. I'm using QSynth along with the "Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GM)" which are both widely and freely available. I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 here, and installed both as distro packages. No fuss, no muss. It shouldn't take you 15 minutes to get set up with it. Try it and it will really help you understand what the heck I'm talking about, and I think a lot of things will become more clear to you. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
