Re: [fluid-dev] SoundFont parameter analysis

[Garth Hjelte]

At 12:48 PM 6/21/2018, you wrote:

>>Additive, because the spec assumes all times to be in absolute timecents. 
>>Soundfont editors however report values in seconds for instrument generators 
>>and a multiplicative factor for preset generators. So your calculations are 
>>basically correct, but they have to be done in SF2 native units. In case 
>>you're fancy for math:
>>seconds = 2^(timecents/1200)
>>Let "tci" be the absolute timecents of the instrument generator and "tcp" the 
>>realtive timecents of the respective preset generator:
>>2^( (tci + tcp) / 1200 ) == 2^( tci / 1200 ) * 2^( tcp / 1200 )
>>Where the left hand side is what the spec suggests and the right hand side is 
>>my previous showing.

>OK, I get it, thank you very much!

An additional question:

As it turns out my math was correct, but the problem upon further analysis 
turns out to be different.

In SweepPad, the ModEnvAtk and ModEnvRel (and some other parameters) have set 
values in a Global Zone AND the regular Zone (the one that defines the 
Instrument in the Preset). The official SoundFont spec doesn't say anything 
about that. Do they add, or does the regular Zone pre-empt Global Zone, or does 
the Global Zone pre-empt the regular Zone?

That's actually the wacky thing about this SoundFont. 

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User