what part did you not understand of the 16 channels maximum (per device, engine or port)?
but you're right about the multiple engines as means to have multiple sets of 16 channels each; each fluidsynth engine makes up a MIDI device input port, so that each engine may only accept a maximum of 16 MIDI channels, always numbered and addressed from channel 1 through channel 16, an nothing else; no MIDI(v1) device, engine or port may ever have a channel number 40. ever.
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what part did you not understand of the 16 channels maximum (per device, engine or port)?
but you're right about the multiple engines as means to have multiple sets of 16 channels each; each fluidsynth engine makes up a MIDI device input port, so that each engine may only accept a maximum of 16 MIDI channels, always numbered and addressed from channel 1 through channel 16, an nothing else; no MIDI(v1) device, engine or port may ever have a channel number 40. ever.