_MIDISOUNDBANK
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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
none
v3.14.0
yes
yes
yes
Examples
- Example 1
- Loading a MIDI sound bank and play a song.
_MIDISOUNDBANK "awesome.sf3" handle = _SNDOPEN("onestop.mid") _SNDPLAY handle |
- 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