Multi-Bank instead of Overwrite/merge

Currently loading multiple fonts causes a sort of overwrite/merge which results in a single working font.

We need to be able, alternatively, to load each font as a seperate 'Bank'  (selectable in software using midi Controller 0)

I suggest an option box on the Fonts tab, to choose "Overwrite/merge" or  "Multibank"

In Multibank mode the fonts become, from top to bottom, Bank 0,  Bank 1,  Bank2 etc.

Fonts containing more than 127 presets will occupy more than 1 Bank -  eg jeux14.sf2 - a well known pipe organ font contains 125 + 75 presets

This will be more compatible with the way Soundblaster Live loads and stores fonts, and will make organists particularly happy!

Keep up the good work.  Great stuff.

OK, but take with fonts which have more than 128 patches, these need to occupy two consecutive banks.

One more point:  Each .sf2 file already contains both preset number and bank number for every instrument (well jeux14.sf2 certainly does), so it would follow that some sort of sequential loading, based on position in the VirtualMidiSynth font list, would be advisable.  I think there would be fewer complications that way. jeux14 has its presets assigned between bank 0 (128 presets)  and bank 1 (76 presets) ,  so if loaded after an initial GM font it could move to banks 1 & 2. 

HOWEVER I see that FluidR3_GM has 128 presets assigned in bank 0, approx 28 in bank 8,  1 in bank 9 , 1 in bank 16 and 49 in bank 128 [unless I'm mistaken] 

I don't understand why it has been done like that but maybe someone out there can enlighten me !

With Soundblaster any fonts I've loaded just got their banks allocated sequentially,  but I haven't tried FluidR3_GM

Apologies if I am muddying the water.

Just curious, is this a dead issue?  I like the solution but I haven't seen any chatter or progress reports on any new features lately.  I an anxious to be able to load a different soundfont into each midi port.  I could do this when I had a Soundblaster soundcard with soundfont and bank management but nowadays I can't even find a new soundcard that supports MIDI. Is it possible?  Right now, loading Coolsoft into both port A and port B in Encore just gets crosstalk between the instrument assignments.

This feature is not dead.

Sadly for VMS (but luckily for me...) my real job growned a lot, bringing a lot of things to manage.
So actually my spare time is really few and its splitted between VMS2 and VMS1.

Hope to release a beta version in a short time...