David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 18 October 2009 17:02:11 Benoît Rouits wrote: >> hello list, >> a word to announce the release of a mini fluidsynth frontend >> written in C/GTK+. it's called 'gluid' and fits in the system >> tray of the panel. The options are very few, but sufficient for >> me. I welcome improvements, translations and feature requests. >> Here it is: http://herewe.servebeer.com/gluid/ >> the SVN code is at http://herewe.servebeer.com/svn/gluid >> Have a nice musical day. > > Cute toy, works ... somewhat. > > Not all soundfonts will be compatable without a few options around. > > 1. Samplerate conversion -- such an animal available in fluidsynth or in jack > (no setting around in qjackctl)? Was not a problem using alsa (but all that > latency!). > > 2. Channels -- Might need to set. There are soundfonts that do not play on the > default channel-1/0. > > 3. Program -- A GM sf2 may have many programs and the MIDI controller needs to > select. Others are one instrument but this either plasy on program 1/0 or on > the appropriate program for say a clarinet. Might want to set a program > outright (which the controller could always change). > > (4. Jack-midi is problematic. Must usually run through a alsa2jackmidi-bridge > program and mutliple connections over three qjackctl panes. Can hang up. Had > similar problems using qsynth!) Thanks for the test. I think i'll implement a channel range selection as next task. (2) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
