Hello there,
I am modernizing some old Ardour projects and noticed that Calf Fluid is no longer supported. I am looking for alternatives. I have currently just the ACE Fluid which works, but is very basic and doesn’t even tell me what are the instruments in each channel, leaving me to guess until I get the correct one.
by Robin Gareus
That is unusual. both the patch selector as well as the Plugin GUI should show the instrument names after loading a .sf2 file if that .sf2 file provides instrument names (almost all do).
x42: I seem to have lots of x42 plugins installed, but General MIDI is not one of them. Does it have a package in Ubuntu or do I have to install them manually?
ACE Fluid: who would have thought that “turning it off and on again” could help? I tried again this morning and the ACE GUI does show the instruments, but it gives me 16 channels and I need to select which instrument goes to each channel. The main GUI only show the 16 chosen channels (though they are named Channel 1-16). Is this the expected behaviour?
That is precisely the expected behavior. What else would you expect?
The General MIDI synth is included with Ardour as packaged by ardour.org but not necessary included in distro versions of Ardour.
What else would you expect?
I was expecting all programs to be exposed instead of it telling me to pick 16 of them.
The General MIDI synth is included with Ardour as packaged by ardour.org but not necessary included in distro versions of Ardour.
I see, but I am not using the distro version, I am using the ardour.org version.
Most MIDI synths have the capacity to deal with all 16 MIDI channels. So if you set channel 1 to a grand piano and channel 2 to a tuba, then send notes on channel 1 and channel 2, you will hear both a piano and a tuba. GM Synth is one of those. Every channel can be set to any one of the available 127 programs.