Change the default instrument sound? (E.g. flugelhorn)

• Oct 30, 2015 - 11:22

Is there a way to specify which instrument voice is chosen for the non GM standard instruments. by default? I've searched the forum, but I haven't found anything relevant.

For example, for both cornet and flugelhorn, the default voice is "trumpet". I get that they're not part of the GM MIDI standard, so there has to be a substitution, but can I choose which voice, instead of it setting it to trumpet?

Personally, the sound I hear in my head when I attempt to play a flugelhorn is nothing like a trumpet. It's closer to a trombone, being played in a high register. For the cornet sounds I want, the tuba is probably closer.

For example, I sometimes import MIDI files with flugelhorn or cornet parts. When I play them, it sounds completely wrong to me, so I usually substitute for the voice, manually, in the mixer panel. It would be nice to set that as the default behaviour. I thought it might be part of the instruments.xml file, but as far as I can see, it isn't.


Comments

You could probably use a template for that, and, possibly by manually editing it, replace the default instrument (Channel, program value)
But yes, doing it in instruments.xml is also an option, it is there, just not by name but by number

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