MIDISOUNDBANK

The _MIDISOUNDBANK command enables _SNDOPEN to use an external FM Bank or SoundFont when playing MIDI files.

Syntax

_MIDISOUNDBANK: fileName$[, capabilities$]

Parameters

• fileName is literal or variable STRING file name value.
• The literal or variable STRING capabilities$ is optional, but it can be set to MEMORY and one of the following formats:
  • MEMORY: This will treat fileName as a memory buffer containing the sound file instead of a file name.
  • 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.

Description

• The selected sound bank is what is used to play all MIDI files.
• If fileName is missing, corrupted, or inaccessible, the command will not produce any errors. However, subsequent attempts to open a MIDI file with _SNDOPEN will fail.
• The command supports AD, OP2, OPL, SF2, SF3, SFO, TMB, WOPL formats on all supported platforms.
• It also supports VSTi (Virtual Studio Technology Instruments) 2.x (DLL) on Windows. However, a VST host, such as the one utilized by foo_midi, is required.
• _EMBEDDED$ sound banks can be used directly with _MIDISOUNDBANK.

Availability

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  v3.14.0

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  yes

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  yes

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  yes

Examples

Example 1

Loading a MIDI sound bank and play a song.

_MIDISOUNDBANK "awesome.sf3" handle = _SNDOPEN("onestop.mid") _SNDPLAY handle

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Example 2

Instead of loading a MIDI sound bank, it can also be embedded and used with the MEMORY capabilitiy.

$EMBED:'./tiny.sf2','mysf2' _MIDISOUNDBANK _EMBEDDED$("mysf2"), "memory, sf2" handle = _SNDOPEN("canyon.xmi") _SNDPLAY handle

See also

• Featured in our "Keyword of the Day" series
• _SNDOPEN

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