fluidLoad
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## fluidLoad

fluidLoad — Loads a SoundFont into a fluidEngine, optionally listing SoundFont contents.

## Syntax

    isfnum fluidLoad soundfont, ienginenum[, ilistpresets]

## Description

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

Loads a SoundFont into an instance of a fluidEngine, optionally listing banks and presets for SoundFont.

## Initialization

isfnum -- number assigned to just-loaded soundfont.

soundfont -- string specifying a SoundFont filename. Note that any number of SoundFonts may be loaded (obviously, by different invocations of fluidLoad).

ienginenum -- engine number assigned from fluidEngine

ilistpresets -- optional, if specified, lists all Fluidsynth programs for the just-loaded SoundFont. A Fluidsynth program is a combination of SoundFont ID, bank number, and preset number that is assigned to a MIDI channel.

## Performance

Invoke fluidLoad in the orchestra header, any number of times. The same SoundFont may be invoked to assign programs to MIDI channels any number of times; the SoundFont is only loaded the first time.

## Examples

Here is an example of the fluidLoad opcode. It uses the file fluidLoad.csd and 07AcousticGuitar.sf2.

Example 344. Example of the fluidLoad opcode.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>
    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    -odac   -+rtmidi=virtual  -M0    ;;;realtime audio out and realtime midi in
    ;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too
    ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
    ;-o fluidLoad.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

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

    giengine fluidEngine
    ; soundfont path to manual/examples
    isfnum	 fluidLoad "07AcousticGuitar.sf2", giengine, 1
    	 fluidProgramSelect giengine, 1, isfnum, 0, 0

    instr 1

    	mididefault   60, p3
    	midinoteonkey p4, p5
    ikey	init p4
    ivel	init p5
    	fluidNote giengine, 1, ikey, ivel

    endin

    instr 99

    imvol  init 7
    asigl, asigr fluidOut giengine
           outs asigl*imvol, asigr*imvol

    endin
    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>

    i 1 0 2 60 100 ;play one note from score and...
    i 99 0 60      ;play virtual keyboard for 60 sec.
    e

    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

The output should include a line like this:

    SoundFont:   1  Bank:   0  Preset:   0  Seagul Acoustic Git

## 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.

New in Csound5.00

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