[linux-audio-user] Re: Recording Fluidsynth playing a MIDI file with ardour - Linux-audio-user

2 Dec 2006

"Kjetil S. Matheussen":
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 Hi,

 I'd like to be able to play a MIDI file with fluidsynth and have ardour record the
output to I can mix other tracks into it.  The two approaches I could think of were:

 1. Have fluidsynth output to a WAV file and import that into ardour.  I
 haven't been able to do that because I can find a fluidsynth output
 driver that writes to a file.

 2. Connect the output of fluidsynth to the ardour track with jack.
 This is also problematic because I can't use qjackctl to make the
 connection until fluidsynth is started but I don't seem to be able to
 start fluidsynth and give it a MIDI file without it starting to play the
 file immediately so by the time I've made the connections and hit
 "record" it is half way through.

 Does anyone please have ideas how I can do this?

 jack_capture constantly monitors which jack ports are connected to
 the soundcard, so it will record everything you hear, even if fluidsynth
 makes the jack connection after it starts playing.                             
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hmmm. I actually meant to say: "after jack_capture starts recording". :-)