[LAU] [ANN] 'gluid' : fluidsynth toy frontend

[Benoît Rouits]

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)