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dwhinham / mt32-pi

🎹🎶 A baremetal kernel that turns your Raspberry Pi 3 or later into a Roland MT-32 emulator and SoundFont synthesizer based on Circle, Munt, and FluidSynth.
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Config option to set default channel assignment #31

Closed T0lk13n closed 4 years ago

T0lk13n commented 4 years ago

Hello. First of all thanks for this great piece of code :)

And now a question. MT-32 use by default inputs 2-9(and 10 to percusion) but it can be changed to 1-8(10 remains the same) with a keys combination.

Is there a way to can do it with this device? Perhaps sending a sysex msg?

Thats all and thanks again.

dwhinham commented 4 years ago

First of all thanks for this great piece of code :)

You're most welcome! It's standing on the shoulders of the excellent Munt core though, so we have the team behind that project to thank too! 😄

MT-32 use by default inputs 2-9(and 10 to percusion) but it can be changed to 1-8(10 remains the same) with a keys combination.

Is there a way to can do it with this device? Perhaps sending a sysex msg?

Yes, there is - coincidentally this was discussed in another issue. Have a look at this reply from me to find some SysEx files you can send to the Pi to remap the channels. You can use a Windows tool such as MIDI-OX to send it, or any other generic MIDI tool capable of sending SysEx.

Would it be useful to have a config file option to set the default channel mapping on startup?

T0lk13n commented 4 years ago

Oh man! I promise i have looking for this kind of info all this weekend. Thanks so much. But yes, I think an option to change this would be great. Ah! And update the faq to let know this issue with default cahnnels. I thought my friend Edu Arana did a faulty device ;) sorry Edu, you are the best!

dwhinham commented 4 years ago

No problem!

I've now updated the FAQ, and created a new wiki page with full details (including the info I linked): https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/MIDI-channel-assignment

Hopefully this will help avoid some confusion for future users who are new to MT-32. 😃

I'll keep this issue open as a feature request for the config file idea. Thanks!

dwhinham commented 4 years ago

I've added the config option feature; it'll be available in the next release, or here if you want to try it now. 👍