fluidInfo

Retrieves program information from currently loaded soundfont.

Syntax

SPrograms[] fluidInfo ienginenum

Plugin opcode in fluidOpcodes. This opcode is part of the plugin repository and has to be installed separately. The plugin repository can be found here: https://github.com/csound/plugins

Iterates through the current soundfont for program information. Information is passed to a string array.

Initialization

SPrograms[] -- String array of program information

_ienginenum _ -- engine number assigned from fluidEngine

Performance

fluidInfo runs at itime only.

Examples

Here is an example of the fluidInfo opcode. It uses the file fluidInfo.csd and sf_GMbank.sf2.

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
-odac    ;;;realtime audio out and realtime midi in
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>
sr = 44100
ksmps = 32
nchnls = 2
0dbfs = 1

giengine fluidEngine
isfnum   fluidLoad "sf_GMbank.sf2", giengine, 1

instr 1
iCnt init 0
SSoundFontPrograms[] fluidInfo giengine
iNumberOfPrograms lenarray SSoundFontPrograms

until iCnt>=iNumberOfPrograms do
        printf_i "%s\n", 1, SSoundFontPrograms[iCnt]
        iCnt = iCnt+1
od
endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
i1 0 1
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

See also

Soundfonts

More information on soundfonts is in the Floss Manuals: https://flossmanual.csound.com/midi/reading-midi-files

For other information on soundfonts look in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundfont

Credits

Rory Walsh, based on Steven Yi's fluidLoad opcode.

New in Csound6.12