Again I am just making an observation regarding something I don't do so
I could be completely off base. Is one of the uses of FluidSynth
intended to be a MIDI file player that allows the use of sound fonts? If
so, I think some of those who want to use it that way are likely to have
little understanding of MIDI and no ability to alter the MIDI files or
even know what is in them. They'll just want to load a sound font and
the MIDI file and hear what they expect to hear. FS probably can't do
that 100% but it needs to do the right thing most of the time or else it
is going to get a "doesn't work" reputation and it will take a long time
to shake that after the issue is fixed. The other alternative is to be
very clear that FS isn't intended for casual playing of MIDI files.
Trying to write software for use by the masses is really hard because it
is so difficult to anticipate what they will try to do and to grasp the
level of understanding or lack thereof. I do front line support of the
Miditzer, which has a lot of users who know almost nothing about MIDI.
The experience gives you a very different perspective on what software
needs to be.
Jim Henry
On 8/12/2010 5:30 AM, Bernd Casper wrote:
If the user wants to use FS to perform MIDI-files created with a
"non-GS standard", it should be left up to him to feed FS with the
correct data. This should certainly be the kind of data from files
like Chris Collins' examples.
Regards
Bernd
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