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Re: [Denemo-devel] staff midi fields


From: Richard Shann
Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] staff midi fields
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:37:37 +0000

Ok, I have done all this now. You can leave the instrument name blank
and setup channel and program or set the instrument name and it will set
the program number. And then, of course you can cause a program change
or override the channel in the music itself.
I'll upgrade the drum clef script now.
Richard

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:18 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 07:49 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:48 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was going to upgrade the Drum Clef selection to set channel 9/10  
> >>> on
> >>> the staff and realized that I have to sort out the built-in staff
> >>> prefs
> >>> for this.
> >>> My proposal is that
> >>>
> >>> the staff->midi_instrument selection  will create a staff directive
> >>> changing the program to 9/10 and (as a caching mechanism set the
> >>> staff->midi_prognum field). The staff->midi_instrument field itself
> >>> will
> >>> go as well as the staff->midi_override field.
> >>> A script setting the program select will also write the
> >>> staff->midi_prognum so that playback immediately can just look  
> >>> this up
> >>> (as it does at present) rather than having to search for a staff
> >>> directive,
> >>> The special code setting the prognum, get_midi_prognum() will go, as
> >>> will the get_midi_channel() - this last tries to find "drums" but as
> >>> that is not in the list of instruments, it never actually sets  
> >>> channel
> >>> 9/10 (AFAIK)
> > Well, actually you can type anything in, so you can type in drums (if
> > you know that this is a good thing to do) and you will get th channel
> > 9/10 from the get_midi_channel function.
> 
> I don't know if this is bad or not. I can't see any problem with it.
> 
> 
> >
> >>> The instrument name is being sent as meta data. We could use the
> >>> prognum
> >>> and the array (in midi.c) to get this string and send it. But it  
> >>> might
> >>> be better to leave this to the user (i.e. a scripted decision).
> >>>
> >>> Question: how does this tie-in with the JACK stuff???
> >>>
> >>
> >> Jackmidi is not doing anything with program number. During midi
> >> playback It is getting the channel number from smf. On scripted
> >> playback it gets this info via the get_midi_channel function. I don't
> >> have the code in front of me at the moment so this may be intention
> >> rather than what is actually written. I am at the point that I want  
> >> to
> >> start wiring device_number and port_number to jackmidi output. I was
> >> thinking of adding some integers to the smf event structure
> > well, we don't need to touch the libsmf code, as the developer kindly
> > added the user_pointer fields for us to use. I think the info you are
> > referring to is per-track info, and I think we have fixed on a
> > one-to-one relation of track==DenemoStaff
> > and so all we need it to set smf_track_t track->user_pointer = staff  
> > to
> > be able to look up the data ( I assume it is stored in
> > staff->device_port)
> > that is, I guess, we have an smf_event and we lookup ((DenemoStaff*)
> > smf_event->track->user_pointer)->device_port, roughly.
> >
> >> to
> >> represent device_number (Jack client number) and port number. I would
> >> also need to modify export midi to set this data in smf event
> >> structure. Do you think this is the correct approach.
> > well, not if the above is right. You don't want anything on the
> > smf_event level, just the track level.
> >
> >> On immediate and
> >> scripted playback this data can be attained from the denemo staff
> >> properies structure.
> >
> > so I am saying that it can be obtained from the smf_track, provided  
> > the
> > user_pointer is set to point to the staff structure
> >
> > All this is slightly to one side of what I am wanting to sort out,  
> > which
> > is the instrument name/channel setting thing - it is obviously a waste
> > of time emitting the instrument name to the internal fluidsynth as  
> > meta
> > data, since it will presumably use the channel/program number settings
> > that are emitted. Is the midi_instrument_name useful for JACK, though?
> 
> No. It is not used. I can see a use for program number not I strument  
> name. I thin instrument name is really onely useful to the user who  
> does not know what program number x refers to. It is also useful in  
> export midi. This way when it is imported into another program it has  
> labels for the instrument. Timidity will display instrument names (I  
> think) as playback occurs.
> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> 
> > Well, perhaps I can side step the issue as follows:
> >    Setting midi_instrument_name as "drums" will cause staff- 
> > >midi_channel
> > to be set to 9/10 (with prognum 0) setting anything else will set the
> > channel number = to staff number (avoiding 9/10 as at present) and
> > prognum = position in the GM list that drops down. The override field
> > can go in that case - channel and prognum will reflect any choice made
> > in the instrument list - I may have to include an UNSET value in the
> > list...
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >> Jeremiah
> >>
> >>
> >>> Richard
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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