VirtualMIDISynth allows this. Then, just play MIDI files in Media Player 😀

Thanks, so if I put the GM one below the GM/GS one I won't be giving priority to a general midi instrument over a gs one that is a version of the general one?

Best to just try it out.

Seems that all the programs replace any GS instrument with a gm one, I think.

I don't have any testing program that can even choose GS instruments but in some midi files that have gs instruments they definitely sound very different when the gm one is put on top.

Timidity can do fairly sophisticated layering of soundfonts.

Some examples here:
http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/faqSf2.html

More reference material (translate file paths uNiX->Windows as required):
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man … dity.cfg.5.html

I don't know the GM/GS/Yamaha patch maps well, so I found some tables:
http://www.voidaudio.net/gsinstrument.html
http://download.yamaha.com/api/asset/file/?la … m&asset_id=2376

Ok thanks, it looks like Linux is the way to go for midi player configurability.

Which soundfont did you buy, Midi?

Midi wrote:

Ok thanks, it looks like Linux is the way to go for midi player configurability.

You can run Timidity in Windows.

Thanks just getting started with Timidity in windows, just stuck on a problem with an error message. When I put it on 24 bit output it doesn't play properly so I installed asio4all but then I get an error saying 'Couldn't open port audio (asio) output.wav'. It might be better in linux but last time I checked I couldn't get my soundcard (M-audio fast track pro) to work at higher than 44.1/16bit in linux.

First I want to stack instruments from Jazman GM on top of another GM/GS soundfont (but not replacing any GS version instruments with GM ones), also I have some non midi mapped soundfonts such as 24bit drum kits and a piano soundfonts cd and some others I bought earlier that I would like to try.

Ideally it would be cool to have a screen showing all the instruments in midi GM GS XG and be able to change the sf2 or sfz file they are using (being able to select instrument and patch(so I can use multi instrument sf2 files that are not designed for midi)).

Re: Fast Track Pro in Linux
There are some limitations on this device which require tradeoffs in features vs performance. >48khz sampling requires reducing the number of active input and/or output channels due to usb bandwidth limitations.

The device_setup module parameter allows you to reconfigure things. See http://alsa.opensrc.org/M-Audio_FastTrack_Pro for more, and remember how to perform binary arithmetic.

Can you describe in detail how you execute Timidity including any parameters you use?

Thanks, I was trying Timidity in windows, I only just installed it an added 1 soundfont sf2 then I played a midi file and it worked but when I changed precision to 24 bit it made a high pitched sound while playing. So I tried some other output settings and none of them seemed to have any sound output so I tried installing asio4all but with that I get the filename error, the setting in timidity is set to auto filename. I'm a newbie to this 😒

I'll look at getting 96khz 24 bit with fast track pro in linux next, but I'm a newbie there too. 😒

IMO Timidity is pretty mediorce... I recommend anything that uses Bassmdi (The midi plugin for XMPLAY for casual listening and Coolsoft VirtualMidiSynth for gaming)

You can stack soundfonts with it easily 😀

Cool. I've heard some criticism of the fidelity of Timidity, but I'm interested to know where it is deficient (in the interest of improvement). Any comments?

TiMidity++ has never properly handled alot of SF2 features, causing alot of SoundFonts developed on Live! or Audigy devices to sound completely incorrect. Even FluidSynth has downfalls in that regard.

BASSMIDI is the only library I know of that tries to accurately utilize SoundFont 2.0 fully.