Re: [fluid-dev] Soundfont banks

[David Henningsson]

On 07/12/2012 07:04 PM, jimmy wrote:
> Those who want to look at some XG-MIDI files, one zip-archive of a few dozen 
> files is here:
>
>     psrtutorial.com/songs/Yamaha/XGCurrent.zip
>
> Not all of them use multiple drum channels, I din't look through all of them, 
> but here are a few within this archive which use 2 drum channels:
>
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/Lost YME '97.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/Ambient by Sam Sketty YME '96.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/Matrix YME '97.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/Cop Out by Sam Sketty YME '96.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/Space Cat by Sam Sketty YME '96.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/Galactic Invasion by David Reading YME '96.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/SmoothJazz/Low Down by Sam Sektty YME '97.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/SmoothJazz/Steely by David Kelly YME '96.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/SmoothJazz/Animate1 Yamaha '96.mid
>     YamahaCurrent/Latin/Farolillo Yamaha '96.mid
>
> I believe this one setup drums on 3 different channels:
>
>     YamahaCurrent/Dance/JazzJung Yamaha '96.mid
>
> Make sure you run FluidSynth in XG mode with:
>
>      -o synth.midi-bank-select=xg

Just a question here: What soundfont do you run these files with? Is 
there an XG soundfont out there (or maybe even lots of them?), and if so 
- how is that soundfont constructed? How does it squeeze XG's drum banks 
and melody banks into the 128+1 bank numbers that the soundfont 
specification offers?

// David