Thank you very much! You answered me 3 times and I'm just eating my way through it all. Just quoting the last one here to base my questions on...
----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:45:26 +0200 (CEST) Holger Marzen <hol...@marzen.de> wrote: > You can create several instances (green cross on the bottom left) in > Qsynth, each with another soundfont and MIDI-channel. That sould be the > way to go. Setting a different soundfont is optional, is it? By midi channel you mean communications like 131:0? [I thought a midi channel was like one of 16 musical instrument sounds available per synthesizer] I managed to create 3 instances of Qsynth and then included them in Rosegarden "Manage-Midi-Devices" and got them to play some segments. I get nice sound quality with this method, way better than Zyn, but.. How do I set up one of the 128*banks available 'programs' or "musical instrument sounds"? Right clicking on the track title in Rosegarden offers up to chose the Qsynth instance and 16 numbers, how do I corelate those numbers to sounds in the loaded sf2 file? Suppose I want that track to play a deep cello, where and how do I set that? So much for virtual midi 'devices'. > Bit I recommend using fluidsynth as synth plugin instruments in > Rosegarden, each with its own soundfont. Latency is much better and > Rosegarden remembers all settings. It's no problem having 3 instruments > with FluidR3_GM.sf2, each with a different sound selected and 2 > instruments with PC51f.sf2. This bit I don't understand but if it cuts down on latency then I want to understand it because I'm using OpenSUSE and they no longer bother with low-latency kernels. However the Rosegarden manual say this about plugins (I presume 'as opposed to midi devices'): "The use of plugins has a cost in CPU time, as audio processing in real time usually takes a significant amount of work even on a modern CPU. It also has a potential cost in reliability: when Rosegarden is running a plugin, if the plugin hangs or crashes, so does Rosegarden. Many plugins are very reliable, but it's inevitable that some will not be so well tested." Anyway, I right click on a track #3 title and select "Synth Plugin" and the number 14 meaning that this synth DSSI plugin (to be next defined) will be used by Rosegarden internally without setting it up as a "Midi-Playback-Device". This shows up under "Track Params" as info but there is nothing to do there. Next I go to "Instrument-Params" which shows the same "Synth Plugin #14" and I click the <no synth> button to define this #14 plugin. A dialog pops up where I can select "Plugin: Fluidsynth DSSI plugin" And then what? I can change the volume here and there are also some effects plugins too but where do I set the "musical instrument sound" I want this 'Fluidsynth DSSI plugin' that is plugin #14 to play track #3 using xyz.sf2? TIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
