Consuming a lot of ram

Hi,

Is there another way to load an instrument than :

MIDI.loadResource({
        instrument: instrumentid,
        onprogress: function (state, percent) {
            console.log(state, percent);
        },
        onsuccess: function () {
            console.log("onSuccess : " + instrumentid);
            MIDI.programChange(channel, instrumentid);
        }
    });

Because each time I load an instrument the google tab has an increase of 100Mb of ram. If there is no other way to load them can we unload instruments ?

[hmoffatt]

I modified the converter (soundfont_builder.rb) to run sox before encoding in order to strip off the silence. The extra line is

run_command "#{SOX} #{target}.orig.wav #{target} reverse silence 1 0.1 0 pad 0.0001@0 reverse channels 1"

I haven’t published my whole modified script anywhere as it has other unrelated changes but you get the idea from the above.

[hmoffatt]

On load it decompresses all the samples back to raw PCM audio. The sound fonts (if generated with the included soundfont builder script) have 3 seconds of stereo audio for 80+ notes… that is where your 100Mb+ per instrument comes from.

I reduced it in my application by trimming silence in the sound fonts so that they are not all 3 seconds. That will help for any instrument sound that decays, like a piano, or drums. It helps for drums especially because some of the notes do not even have a sound - with the original script you have 3 seconds of silence loaded!