[PlanetCCRMA] Fluidsynth 1.1.1-1

S C Rigler riglersc at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 07:11:34 PST 2010


On Saturday 20 February 2010 07:42:16 am Ebrahim Mayat wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 07:11 -0600, S C Rigler wrote:
> > The latest fluidsynth update (1.1.1-1) appears to have omitted
> > /usr/share/soundfonts/VintageDreamsWaves-v2.sf2.
> 
> Hello Steve
> 
> This file was removed since it was not under a free license.
> 
> > It's also making QSynth
> > behave strangely (the "Channels" window just repeats the name of the
> > first sound in the first channel across all the channels).
> 
> It was decided by the lead devs of fluidsynth that the first instrument
> of all channels was to be the default since this is how most MIDI
> equipment works. You can change it according to your needs either by
> double-clicking on each channel in qsynth or by inputting your own
> preset file into fluidsynth
> 
> e.g. $ fluidsynth -f preset_file
> 
> Your preset file could look something like this:
> 
> gain 2
> select 0 1 000 000
> select 1 1 000 002
> select 2 1 000 005
> select 3 1 012 000
> 
> Check "man fluidsynth" for more details.
> 
> Also use qsynth from svn as changes were made by Rui Nuno Capela to make
> qsynth compatible with fluidsynth-1.1.1.
> 
> Ebrahim
> 

Thanks for the tips, Ebrahim.

--Steve



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