Re: script to produce yoshimi.rgd and how to change banks

Hi Prad,

On 13/06/22 05:16, prad via Rosegarden-user wrote:
> having played around for a while with rg and a downloaded a yoshimi.rgd
> from
> https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/rosegarden/data/library/yoshimi.rgd?format=raw
> 
> i found that it doesn't match the yoshimi banks and instrument setup i'm
> getting from yoshimi now on archlinux.
> 
> so i made a little script that will create a yoshimi.rgd from
> /usr/share/yoshimi/banks.

I think that bank was indeed made around 6 years ago via this script [1] 
I had made, but then Yoshimi default banks changed quite a bit and I'm 
not even sure if that script still works :-)

> 
> see this post for the script:
> https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=24573&start=15
> 
> it's working nicely on my system.

Personally, I must admit that I hardly ever use that file. I prefer to 
change instruments etc. in Yoshimi and have nothing set-up in that 
regards in Rosegarden. That is because 95% of times I will be tweaking 
even the default instruments, in terms of parameters effects etc. and I 
*don't* want Rosegarden to inadvertently 'restore' the defalut.

But I understand if Rosegarden is providing a Yoshimi bank file it 
should probably be up to date :-)

> 
> what i don't understand though is why neither this yoshimi.rgd nor the other
> one, let's me change banks within rg.
> 
> from the instrument parameters, i can change instruments within a
> bank, but the bank has to be set in a running yoshimi. i can't change
> bank from instrument parameters (even though it looks like i've changed
> it).
> 

Have you made sure Yoshimi is actually set-up to react to Bank and 
Program Changes? There i a configuration setting for this [2]

Lorenzo

[1] https://github.com/lorenzosu/rosegarden_yoshimi_banks
[2] https://yoshimi.github.io/docs/user-guide/config/config.html (see 
inparticular "MIDI" at the end)