On Friday 30 July 2004 06:02 am, Steve Harris wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:10:32 +0100, tim hall wrote: > > <OT> > > If anybody knows how to do this with QSynth / Fluid / Soundfonts > > generally I'd love to know about it. This is one of the things I most > > hate about soundfonts. > > </OT> > > pitchwheel? (seriously) DLS or GM defines a standard range for pitchweel, > so you could write/beg/borrow/steal some code to send a onetime pitchbend > message over alsasequencer that would retune all the synths to a > particular A tuning. Hardware synths have a detuning parameter so it's an expectation for somebody coming from that world. IIRC Eastern orchestras tune to 438 and some Japanese stuff used to actually ship tuned thusly. I was surprised not to see a master tune param in the fluidsynth man page. Seriously? That's a pretty gruesome hack. It'd do the job but it creates more problems than it solves. > > Assuming the soundfont engine supports pitchbend, but I would imagine it > does. > > FWIW my "less trivial" DSSI synth example supports retuning A, but in all > other ways its completely useless :) > > - Steve
