Soundfont Banks

• Oct 2, 2012 - 20:46

I'm sorry if I'm repeating anybody, but I would really request that the ability to change to any bank within the default bank 0 and the drumset bank 128.

This will give more options with instruments of other various sounds you may use.

Thank you for your time.


Comments

Actually it is more complicated than that.

The facility to use Bank Select messages is already built into MuseScore, but the default soundfont is GM and therefore only recognises Bank Select MSB 0 and 1 (ie Banks 0 and 128)

In order to expand the range of instruments a soundfont which recognises the Bank Select LSB is required which then means you have a virtually limitless system for expansion.

Once we have MuseScore 2.0 launched we will be able to use multiple soundfonts, and therefore there is the potential to use Bank Select messages in combination with this to greatly expand the playback facilities of MuseScore.

There have been some preliminary discussions on this here if you are interested:
http://musescore.org/en/forum/776

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