On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:49:43AM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > As I also wrote on the Fluidsynth dev list I'm essentially after two > possible use cases: > 1. Record different instruments from a "general midi" soundfont (on > different midi channels) independently e.g. in Ardour on a track per > instrument. > 2. Record drums from a drum soundfont independently to their own track > in the DAW (Ardour). In that case I would be sequencing each drum on its > own (MIDI) channel. > > I'm not sure if / how -L might help on 2. as there still doesn't seem to > be a way to route a (midi) channel to an audio output. The follow example shows a possible preset. For simplicity, I use only a drum kit but you can select multiple drum kits and/or other samples (also from different soundfonts). The drum kits in FluidR3_GM.sf2 are: sh> echo -e "load /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2\ninst 1" \ | fluidsynth 2>/dev/null | grep 128- 128-000 Standard 128-001 Standard 1 [...] 128-042 Brush 2 128-048 Orchestra Kit The format of a line is "bank-prog name". For example, with 10 stereo outputs (kick, snare, 3toms+floor, crash, ride, closed and open hihat), you can create a simple config file: sh> cat my.cfg load /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 select 0 1 128 0 select 1 1 128 0 select 2 1 128 0 select 3 1 128 0 select 4 1 128 0 select 5 1 128 0 select 6 1 128 0 select 7 1 128 0 select 8 1 128 0 select 9 1 128 0 where the syntax of "select" (from "help event") is: select chan sfont bank prog Start fluidsynth with: fluidsynth -a jack -L 10 -f my.cfg Now the standard kit is used for the ten stereo outputs and you can play, for example, the follow samples: |--------------+--------+---------------| | midi channel | sample | jack output | |--------------+--------+---------------| | 1 | kick | l_00 and r_00 | | 2 | snare | l_01 and r_01 | | 3 | hhc | l_02 and r_02 | | 4 | hho | l_03 and r_03 | | 5 | floor | l_04 and r_04 | | 6 | toml | l_05 and r_05 | | 7 | tomm | l_06 and r_06 | | 8 | tomh | l_07 and r_07 | | 9 | crash | l_08 and r_08 | | 10 | ride | l_09 and r_09 | |--------------+--------+---------------| _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user