Topic: is it possible to modify presets from the command line?
hi,
i'm using PTQ stage 6.0.1 on linux (but after tonight it will be 6.1.1 ...). is it possible to use the command line to modify presets? the kind of thing i'd like to do is take a short midi file and render it with a variety of pianos from the standard presets for comparison, but i'd like to make changes to the presets on the fly.
here's a typical example. suppose i'd like to render this midi file with all the Steinways available. my keyboard is a KX88, which sends out velocity = 15 as the lowest value, and i have various velocity curves stored i like to use that fix this problem. but i don't have a preset for every Steinway that uses one of these velocity curves. i'd like to be able to run the program with --preset equal to one of these pianos, and then to use another argument to modify the velocity curve. but i didn't see how to accomplish that.
there are variations on this problem i'm interested in. for instance, is there some way to set the reverb or other effects from the command line? could i for example load up Steinway Home and then change the reverb to Taj Mahal? or do i have to load up the UI and create a custom preset?
finally, is the file format for .fxp documented somewhere? if worst comes to worst i could try to write code to edit the various presets on the fly.