Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Questions - Audio channels & MIDI ports vs. MIDI channels

[Christian S. <chr...@ep...>]

Es geschah am Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 19:57 als Mark Knecht schrieb:
> 1) I get only a single pair of audio outputs, not the two separate pairs
> I might have expected. Is LS currently mixing the output of all engines
> into a single stereo output pair or is the second engine not there at
> all? I think they should be separate so that I can send them to
> different signal processing chains.

Yes, they're simply mixed at the moment, but audio and MIDI driver 
configuration (including what you want) is in work.

>
> 2) I only get a single MIDI port inside the MIDI connections page of
> qjackctl. This may be correct as I think qjackctl doesn't show me what
> is hooked to each MIDI channel, but I want to check that this is the
> expected operation. If this is expected then can I somehow create
> separate ports for each loaded instrument, and even nicer, can I somehow
> name these ports so that connections to them become more user friendly?

Currently: no, no
Very soon: yes and yes

> I also noticed that LS is picky about what channel numbers I use. For
> instance, if there isn't a channel 0 then I cannot assign an engine to
> channel 1. I don't know if this is intended or a bug, but it seems

Intended

> likely that later we'll want to be adding and dropping channels as we
> use the sampler and it would be good to just allow the user to use any
> unique number instead of an incremental one. Just a thought.

For what purpose? The sampler channel number is only meant as an unique ID to 
distinguish the sampler channels.

CU
Christian