Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Es geschah am Sonntag, 27. Juni 2004 20:11 als Mark Knecht schrieb:
> 
>>Vladimir Senkov wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I'm almost there with the MIDI.
>>
>><SNIP>
>>
>>>I think this makes more sense especially if we ever want to have
>>>multiple midi inputs connected to the same sampler channel.
>>>For now i'll assume that only a single input can be connected to a given
>>>channel,
>>
>><SNIP>
>>
>>I agree. If I wanted two devices to both drive a piano Gig file, then
>>I'd load the same gig file on two ports and drive them separately. I've
>>mentioned this a couple of time, but I don't remember ever getting a
>>response - If a single gig is loaded on two or more ports it should NOT
>>require any extra samples be loaded into memory. Hopefully it will just
>>point both channels to the same samples and the same files on disk.
>>There should be little overhead for doing this.
> 
> 
> As far as I can remember we agreed already months ago to do it that way; means 
> only one MIDI input per sampler channel. That's how it's defined in the 
> network protocol.
> 
> And sure, if one instrument is selected multiple times on different sampler 
> channels, there's of course only one copy of the instrument data / samples in 
> memory. That's what the 'InstrumentResourceManager' class is for:
> 

Great! I have no recollection of the decision, but I'm of course very 
happy that you see it this way. I have often used 2-3 piano tracks 
driving a single gig file.

thanks,
Mark