Am 07/30/2017 um 05:50 PM schrieb Tim: > > > On 07/30/2017 08:45 AM, martin wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> in an instrument definition (idf-file) I can group patches to patch groups. >> Is a similar thing possible with soundfonts? >> I know, that (most of) the available soundfonts will not contain any >> grouping information, but what if I assemble the >> soundfont myself? I tried prefixing the name with a group name as in >> "Piano/Grand Piano", but that just displays >> "Piano/Grand Piano" instead of showing "Grand Piano" in a group "Piano". >>
> This is because our synthesizer devices define all > of those settings themselves. Patch names, numbers, > controllers and their names and ranges etc. I don't know how people work with soundfonts, but I noticed, that many soundfonts are "over complete". If all I need is that upright piano, I don't want to load hundreds of megabytes with other instruments, which I currently don't need, or where I have good enough sounds already. I actually noticed that I was pushing Muse to its memory limits by using large soundfonts. I also got rid of all ladspa plugins, by changing the plugin path to "/tmp" (when I deleted all directories in the path, the defaults show up again the next time muse starts). Before that muse took minutes to start. So I was thinking about compiling my own soundfonts by taking the best presets from whatever I can find. If I do this, I might as well give those presets a name to my liking and I might call it "Piano/Upright". It should be easy for muse to use this syntax for grouping patches. The drawback of course is that this puts a bit too much meaning into a patch name and that most soundfonts will not use this feature. It is just non standard. Then again, editing a soundfont file and renaming all the patches is no more work than writing an idf file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Lmuse-user mailing list Lmuse-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-user
