• "memory" - indicating that the fileName$ is a buffer and not a file name and one of the following.
  
• "ad": Global Timbre Library format for Audio Interface Library.
  
• "op2": DMX OPL-2 format.
  
• "opl": Global Timbre Library format for Audio Interface Library.
  
• "sf2": Creative's SoundFont 2.0 format.
  
• "sf3": MuseScore's Ogg compressed Creative SoundFont 2.0 format.
  
• "sfo": Bernhard Schelling's Ogg compressed Creative SoundFont 2.0 format.
  
• "tmb": Apogee Sound System timbre format.
  
• "wopl": Vitaly Novichkov's OPL3BankEditor format.
  

$EMBED:'./tiny.sf2','mysf2'



_MIDISOUNDBANK _EMBEDDED$("mysf2"), "memory, sf2"



handle = _SNDOPEN("canyon.xmi")

_SNDPLAY handle

handle = _SNDOPEN("groove.xmi")



_SNDPLAY handle

_MIDISOUNDBANK "4mgmgsmt.sf2"



handle = _SNDOPEN("onestop.mid")

_SNDPLAY handle

$IF WINDOWS THEN

_MIDISOUNDBANK "syxg50.dll" ' load VSTi on Windows

$ELSE

_MIDISOUNDBANK "4mgmgsmt.sf2" ' fallback to a SoundFont on other platforms

$ENDIF



handle = _SNDOPEN("onestop.mid")

_SNDPLAY handle

• Play monkey.mid and Wolfenstein 3D*.mid from the midis directory using FM Synthesis.
  
• Play THE_RAIN.mid, ECHOES.mid, striving.mid, and DOOM MIDIs in the midis directory using soundbanks/gzdoom.sf2.
  
• Play COLDWAVE.mid, MHBB.mid, and TK_EATS.mid in the midis directory using soundbanks/wingroove.sf2.
  
• On Windows, play bi2_polkovnik.mid, Cop Out by Sam Sketty YME '96.mid, Fool's World (XG).mid, The Major Seven (XG).mid, and Technocrat XG Sam Cardon.mid using soundbanks/syxg50.dll.
  

_MIDISOUNDBANK "4mgmgsmt.sf2"



 



handle = _SNDOPEN("onestop.mid")



_SNDPLAY handle

Screen _NewImage(600, 400, 32)

'_MIDISoundBank ".\Nice-Strings-PlusOrchestra-v1.6.sf2"

Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

_SndPlay Song&



Print " 1 Normal"

Print " 2 DooM"

Print " 3 Nokia"

Print " 4 Orchester"

Print " 5 Aspirin"

Print " 6 Airfont"

Print " 7 Mega Sound"

Print

Print " ESC EXIT"







Do

    k = _KeyHit



    Select Case k

        Case 27 ' esc

            Exit Do

        Case 50

            _SndStop Song&

            _SndClose Song&

            _MIDISoundBank ".\gzdoom.sf2"

            _Delay 1

            Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

            _SndPlay Song&

        Case 51

            _SndStop Song&

            _SndClose Song&

            _MIDISoundBank ".\Nokia_S30.sf2"

            _Delay 1

            Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

            _SndPlay Song&

        Case 52

            _SndStop Song&

            _SndClose Song&

            _MIDISoundBank ".\Nice-Strings-PlusOrchestra-v1.6.sf2"

            _Delay 1

            Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

            _SndPlay Song&

        Case 53

            _SndStop Song&

            _SndClose Song&

            _MIDISoundBank ".\Aspirin_160_GMGS_2015.sf2"

            _Delay 1

            Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

            _SndPlay Song&

        Case 54

            _SndStop Song&

            _SndClose Song&

            _MIDISoundBank ".\airfont_320_neo.sf2"

            _Delay 1

            Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

            _SndPlay Song&

        Case 55

            _SndStop Song&

            _SndClose Song&

            _MIDISoundBank ".\24.1mg_mega_sound_v2.0_bank.sf2"

            _Delay 1

            Song& = _SndOpen(".\Survivor - Rocky III - Eye of the Tiger.mid")

            _SndPlay Song&

    End Select

    _Limit 10

Loop

System

(08-28-2024, 08:09 PM)Pete Wrote: Way too advanced for me. I'm more of a BEEP man.

I have fiddled around a bit with sound and batch files. 

For instance, what do you get when you put SOUND 0, 0 in a batch file?

ECHO
The sound of silence

Pete  

+2 to Sam and Rho for their work on this article.

(08-28-2024, 06:34 PM)Steffan-68 Wrote: First of all, a great explanation, I like it.
And their example player (MIDIPlayer64) is simply brilliantly made.
I've been playing around with _MIDISOUNDBANK  and I noticed something that wasn't said here or in the WIKI.

That works quite well.
But if you want to switch from one soundfont to another in your program, for whatever reason, you always have to first 
Load the sound font and then the sound. All previously loaded sounds will not be played with the new sound font. 
That wasn't explicitly stated here.
 
I also noticed that in such a case there is a pause of 1 second between load Soundfont and load Sound and Play
You have to insert it, otherwise it won't work either.
I made a little demo to quickly hear how different sound fonts sound with one sound.
I noticed this.
Take all _DELAY 1 out and it won't work anymore

Unfortunately I can't upload the sound font, despite 7z it's still 249 MB, which won't be accepted here.

(08-28-2024, 06:34 PM)Steffan-68 Wrote: Unfortunately I can't upload the sound font, despite 7z it's still 249 MB, which won't be accepted here.

Quote:When loading a sound from a file path, the engine will reference count the file to prevent it from being loaded if it's already in memory. When you uninitialize a sound, the reference count will be decremented, and if it hits zero, the sound will be unloaded from memory. This reference counting system is not used for streams. The engine will use a 64-bit hash of the file name when comparing file paths which means there's a small chance you might encounter a name collision. If this is an issue, you'll need to use a different name for one of the colliding file paths, or just not load from files and instead load from a data source.

(08-30-2024, 03:31 PM)a740g Wrote: @Steffan-68 I've found out why the _DELAY makes your code work. So, miniaudio (our audio backend) does file-name hashing when loading audio files. The following is a direct quote from the miniaudio docs.

Quote:When loading a sound from a file path, the engine will reference count the file to prevent it from being loaded if it's already in memory. When you uninitialize a sound, the reference count will be decremented, and if it hits zero, the sound will be unloaded from memory. This reference counting system is not used for streams. The engine will use a 64-bit hash of the file name when comparing file paths which means there's a small chance you might encounter a name collision. If this is an issue, you'll need to use a different name for one of the colliding file paths, or just not load from files and instead load from a data source.

The _DELAY in your code gives the miniaudio thread enough time to purge the audio data and file name out of its system which allows it to load the same sound file afresh with the new soundbank.
Another way to work around this is to load the MIDI file with a different file name (or a different MIDI file).
You can also pass the "STREAM" flag to see if that works for you. Ideally, from the midiaudio docs it seems like it should work.
Unfortunately, currently, there is no direct way in the miniaudio API that we can use to bypass the file name hashing and reference counting behavior. We have reported this to the miniaudio authors and hopefully will have a long-term solution soon.