[fluid-dev] Re: exporting SYSEX files from fluidsynth

[josh]

Quoting Ebrahim Mayat <address@hidden>:
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:11 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Its called the MIDI Tuning Standard.  There are 2 different forms   
> > of it.  The older one doesn't properly support tuning bank #s.    
> > They created a second revision of it to fix that oversight and   
> > provide some additional things (such as octave tunings).  There are  
> >  some tools, such as Scala, which can be used to generate tunings.   
> >  Its a pretty complex program.  I was able to export a MIDI file   
> > containing a MIDI Tuning Standard (MTS) dump, which I successfully   
> > loaded with FluidSynth.
> >
> > http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
> Josh
>
> So, would it be possible to load *.scl Scala files directly into
> fluidsynth and then export *.syx sysex files ?


No, FluidSynth doesn't parse .scl directly.  What we've added is  
support for SYSEX commands embedded in MIDI data.  So you could add  
the proper MTS SYSEX commands into a MIDI file.  This is better than  
the pitch bender hacks, since you can have more than one note playing  
on a channel, where-as the pitch bender method means you can only have  
1 note at a time (since the bend affects all notes on a given channel).

I saw that Scala also had support for exporting FluidSynth shell  
commands (see "help tuning" in the FluidSynth shell), so it seems  
there was already a method of leveraging alternative tunings.  This  
new feature just allows for the ability to embed the tuning in a MIDI  
file or send it via a MIDI driver or device.


> BTW, check out
> <http://www.mail-archive.com:80/address@hidden/msg01115.html>

Sometimes it seems like time loops around on itself ;)

> E

Josh