[LAA] FluidSynth 1.1.0 "A More Solid Fluid" released

On behalf of the FluidSynth development team, I'm happy to announce the release of FluidSynth 1.1.0 "A More Solid Fluid". This is the result of a 6 month development cycle and is the most significant release since 1.0.0. FluidSynth is a software wavetable synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specification. http://fluidsynth.resonance.org New features and changes: * Extensive work on making FluidSynth more thread safe, resulting in better stability. * Audio file rendering for MIDI to audio file conversion, faster than realtime (#15). * Optional libsndfile support for file rendering in different audio file formats (wav, flac, ogg vorbis, etc) (#30). * Audio and MIDI are synchronized for MIDI file playback. * Server can be specified for Jack audio and MIDI drivers. * Jack audio and MIDI is now synchronized (when same Jack server used). * MIDI file playback is now timed correctly, even with large audio buffer sizes. * Fixed issue with missing percussion in MIDI files caused by very short notes, using synth.min-note-length setting (#1). * Improved support for MIDI tuning standard, including SYSEX support and realtime tuning activation. * Multi-core support for utilizing multiple CPUs for synthesis or increasing speed of file rendering. * Voices for a note-on event are started synchronously (#46). * TCP/IP shell server support for windows (#20). * Improved settings output (-o help) (alphabetically sorted and string options listed). * Audio driver (-a) and MIDI driver (-m) options now accept "help" and list available options (#41). * Added audio.realtime-prio and midi.realtime-prio for controlling realtime scheduling of some audio and MIDI drivers. * Default priority levels of audio and MIDI threads set to 60 and 50 respectively. * All yes/no string boolean settings converted to integer toggle settings (with backwards compatibility). * glib is now a required dependency. * Updated README-OSX * Added "voice_count" shell command for getting current number of active voices. New command line options: -F, --fast-render=[file] -T, --audio-file-type -O, --audio-file-format -E, --audio-file-endian New or changed parameters: * Audio file output settings: audio.file.endian, audio.file.format, audio.file.name, audio.file.type, audio.sample-format * Realtime scheduling settings: audio.realtime-prio, midi.realtime-prio * Jack settings: audio.jack.server and midi.jack.server * Other settings: player.reset-synth, player.timing-source, synth.cpu-cores (experimental), synth.min-note-length Bug fixes and minor changes: * Fixed enabling of high priority scheduling in many audio drivers. * Fixed bank selection logic * Build fixes for mingw and VC++ builds on Windows * Fix default values (after MIDI reset) to be more consistent with MIDI spec (#29). * Removed VintageDreamsWaves-v2.sf2 since it wasn't under a free license. * Solaris build fix (#52) * Implemented fluid_player_set_loop (#33) * Fixed scaletune error (#26) * Fixed synth reset between songs (#31) * Fixed pitch bend error in Windows MIDI driver (#54) * Skip remaining track data in MIDI file after EOT (#53) * Bug fix in MIDI router where mutex was left locked with MIDI system reset message. * Help command now shows list of topics instead of General help. * Fixed non-blocking in alsa_raw, alsa_seq and OSS MIDI drivers. * Fixed segfault on config file load (#45). Changes affecting developers: * Developer API docs overhauled and now very complete. * Lots of code cleanup in fluid_synth.c, fluid_chorus.c, fluid_reverb.c and fluid_chan.c. * Improved use of settings hints for all settings. * char * arguments changed to const char * for many function prototypes. * Many new API functions. See "Whats new in 1.1.0?" section in developer API documentation for more details: http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/docs/api/index.html#NewIn1_1_0 Contributors ------------ Josh Green David Henningsson Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas Ebrahim Mayat And many others!