That all seems to be correct about reverb and chorus. I routinely turn them off and use Csound itself for that, as it does a better job. I think you are right about panning, but I haven't tried it. Regards, Mike On 1/3/09, Oeyvind Brandtsegg wrote: > Just a shot in the dark, as I haven't used the fluid engine that much. > Could you set up on single engine with the same preset sound > (instrument) on 3 different midi channels, and then set panning for > each channel via midi controller message. If I remember correctly, pan > is controller number 10, send it on the same channel used to play > notes for each voice. It also seems from the docs for the fluidEngine > opcode that reverb and chorus can be processed by the engine. It looks > like the effects can only be disabled, I read this to mean that if the > loaded soundfont has these effects enabled they will be used, unless > you disable them with the iReverbEnabled and iChorusEnabled parameters > for fluidEngine. > > best > Oeyvind > > 2009/1/3 Michael Mossey : >> I have a question about the Fluid opcodes. >> >> I want to make a composition with three "voices".. each will be the same >> soundfont/bank/preset, but they will have different "pan" in the output. >> Because they are all the same soundfont/bank/preset, I hoped I would need >> only one engine. But the problem is that an engine has only a single >> stereo >> output, so there's no way I know of to pan the three voices left or right. >> Do I need three engines, (thus three collection opcodes that have their >> outputs panned differently) to do this? >> >> If so, will three copies of the soundfont be loaded into memory? >> >> Perhaps engines have the ability to pan? (While I'm on that topic, do >> engines have chorusing or reverb capability?) >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> >> Send bugs reports to this list. >> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe >> csound" >> > > > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe > csound" > -- Michael Gogins Irreducible Productions Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com