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fluidEngine

Instantiates a fluidsynth engine.

Syntax

ienginenum fluidEngine [iChorusEnabled] [, iRevervEnabled] [, iNumChannels] [, iPolyphony]

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

Instantiates a fluidsynth engine, and returns ienginenum to identify the engine. ienginenum is passed to other other opcodes for loading and playing SoundFonts and gathering the generated sound.

Initialization

ienginenum -- engine number assigned from fluidEngine.

iChorusEnabled -- optionally set to 0 to disable any chorus effect in the loaded SoundFonts.

iReverbEnabled -- optionally set to 0 to disable any reverb effect in the loaded SoundFonts.

iNumChannels -- number of channels to use; range is 16-256 and Csound default is 256 (Fluidsynth's default is 16).

iPolyphony -- number of voices to be played in parallel; range is 16-4096 and Csound default is 4096 (Fluidsynth's default is 256). Note: this is not the number of notes played at the same time as a single note may use create multiple voices depending on instrument zones and velocity/key of played note.

Examples

Here is example of the fluidsynth opcodes using 2 engines. It uses the file fluidEngine.csd and midichn_advanced.mid.

Example of the fluidsynth opcodes using 2 engines.
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<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
-odac  -F  midichn_advanced.mid ;;;reatime audio out and midifile in
;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too
; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
; -o fluidEngine.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

sr = 44100
ksmps = 32  
nchnls = 2
0dbfs  = 1

; LOAD SOUNDFONTS
gienginenum1    fluidEngine
gienginenum2    fluidEngine
isfnum1 fluidLoad "sf_GMbank.sf2", gienginenum1, 1
                ; Piano 2, program 1, channel 1
                fluidProgramSelect      gienginenum1, 1, isfnum1, 0, 1
                ; Piano 3, program 2, channel 2
                fluidProgramSelect      gienginenum1, 2, isfnum1, 0, 2
isfnum2 fluidLoad "19Trumpet.sf2", gienginenum2, 1
                ; Trumpet, program 56, channel 3
                fluidProgramSelect      gienginenum2, 3, isfnum2, 0, 56

;Look for midifile in folder manual/examples
;"midichn_advanced.mid" sends notes to the soundfonts

instr 1 ; GM soundfont
  ; INITIALIZATION
        mididefault     60, p3 ; Default duration of 60 -- overridden by score.
        midinoteonkey   p4, p5 ; Channels MIDI input to pfields.
  ; Use channel assigned in fluidload.
  ichannel   = 1
  ikey       = p4
  ivelocity  = p5
        fluidNote gienginenum1, ichannel, ikey, ivelocity
endin

instr 2 ; GM soundfont
  ; INITIALIZATION
         mididefault   60, p3 ; Default duration of 60 -- overridden by score.
         midinoteonkey p4, p5 ; Channels MIDI input to pfields.
  ; Use channel assigned in fluidload.
  ichannel   = 2
  ikey       = p4
  ivelocity  = p5
         fluidNote gienginenum1, ichannel, ikey, ivelocity
endin

instr 3 ; Trumpet
  ; INITIALIZATION
         mididefault   60, p3 ; Default duration of 60 -- overridden by score.
         midinoteonkey p4, p5 ; Channels MIDI input to pfields.
  ; Use channel assigned in fluidload.
  ichannel   = 3
  ikey       = p4
  ivelocity  = p5
         fluidNote gienginenum2, ichannel, ikey, ivelocity
endin

; COLLECT AUDIO FROM ALL SOUNDFONTS

instr 100 ; Fluidsynth output

  iamplitude1 = 7
  iamplitude2 = 7

; AUDIO
aleft1, aright1 fluidOut   gienginenum1
aleft2, aright2 fluidOut   gienginenum2
                outs       (aleft1 * iamplitude1) + (aleft2 * iamplitude2),  \
                           (aright1 * iamplitude1) + (aright2 * iamplitude2)
endin
</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>

i 1 0 3  60  100
i 2 1 3  60  100
i 3 3 3  63  100
i 100 0 10              ;run for 10 seconds 
e
</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

Michael Gogins (gogins at pipeline dot com), Steven Yi. Thanks to Peter Hanappe for Fluidsynth.

Optional iNumChannels and iPolyphony parameters added in 5.07

Order of arguments corrected in manual August 2019.