Soundfont classified wrongly as drums

[worikgh]

I used a sounfont with these instruments (as identified by griode):

        Instrument(1, 0, 1126, Distorted), 
        Instrument(1, 1, 1126, Clean), 
        Instrument(1, 2, 1126, Chords), 
        Instrument(1, 3, 1126, Bass)

These were identified as drums because 1126 % 1000 > 100 by get_dk_and_font, I think.

Where does: i.bank % 1000 > 100 mean? Is that supposed to be a property of sound fonts?

[jpetazzo]

Hi!

If I remember well, I had noticed that in most sound fonts, the drum kits were on banks 100 to 127, and that it was a good heuristics to decide whether to map the instrument the "note" layout or to the "drum" layout.

To be honest, I don't know (and can't find any official info) to know if it was a good thing or just a lucky guess on my part.

I wonder what would be the best solution here?

• some way in the interface to switch to a "note" layout even for drum patches?
• adding the possibility of a small file to configure the sound font, e.g. if you have the file 2.sf2 and also 2.yml it would load that YAML and it could contain some overrides...?
• find out what's the real rule about bank numbers?
• something else?