On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I wrote: >> Well, actually it doesn't. It'll happily start up, but trying to actually >> play anything outputs... nothing. With no error message or anything, it >> just produces no sound, and AFAICT never actually connects to PulseAudio >> (even if I try explicitly setting the ALSA output device to default or >> pulse). The command-line fluidsynth is broken the same way. (This shows >> another issue with the current situation: some programs claim to support >> several APIs, but only one gets actually tested.) Well, at least there's >> timidity++ which actually works... > > FYI, the issue there is just with the default settings: there is no > soundfont configured by default in QSynth or fluidsynth. (Thanks to Jon > Escombe for pointing this out.) When I configure one by hand (why do I have > to do this? Should it not be the packager's job to set up a default > soundfont?), it "works", for some definition of "working". After bumping up > the buffer size (with the default, I just get noise as output), it suffers > from horrible arhythmy, probably due to ALSA being used both on the > sequencer end and on the output end, I've seen the same happen with > timidity++ back when I was still using dmix (now with PulseAudio, > timidity++ uses libao which uses the native PulseAudio protocol, so this > issue is gone). Jon Escombe also pointed out that the latest fluidsynth > release has a native PulseAudio driver (but unfortunately it's not > available in Fedora yet), that one should work better. > > But this is getting way off topic for this list. > > Kevin Kofler I got comaintainership for QSynth just today and I'll look into this issue now. Just a little more information about the soundfonts, although we are really stretching it. The default soundfont is replaced in F-11. It used to be PersonalCopy-Lite-soundfont, now it is fluid-soundfont-gm which is probably the only really good free soundfont out there (here gm stands for General Midi). Moreover, the new soundfont package provides the virtual "soundfont2-default". And this is what other packages should require. If your application/library needs to hardcode a default soundfont path, please use /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2, which is a symlink that points to fluid-soundfont-gm.sf2. We did it this way; in case the default soundfont changes again in the future, there will be an easy transition. Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
