stacking soundfonts in synth.default-soundfont

[MartinF99]

Is it possible to make the fluidsynth daemon use multiple soundfonts via synth.default-soundfont? And if so, how do you do seperate them?

[xop01]

No. synth.default-soundfont is one file. You cannot list several paths in that setting.

Add one load line per extra SoundFont in the config FluidSynth reads at startup:

set synth.default-soundfont /usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2
load /path/to/second.sf2
load /path/to/third.sf2

If you did not pass -f, that file is the system config, often /etc/fluidsynth.conf. If your service starts FluidSynth with a single soundfont argument and no -f, it never reads those load lines. Point the service at the config with -f.

Each load stacks another font. When two fonts have the same bank and program, the later one is used. In the FluidSynth prompt, fonts shows what is loaded.

@MartinF99

[MartinF99]

Thank you that's exactly what I've been looking for.

[derselbst]

that file is the system config

...unless a user scoped config exists, see: https://www.fluidsynth.org/wiki/FluidSynth-configuration-files/