Re: [fluid-dev] Windows SoundFont VSTi's

2012-10-31 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 31, 2012, at 3:28 AM, S. Christian Collins wrote: I've downloaded them all... every single SoundFont-compatible VSTi I could find, and not a single one of them comes anywhere close to the accurate SoundFont reproduction of FluidSynth. Apparently, nobody else bothers to support SoundFont

Re: [fluid-dev] Soundfont banks

2012-07-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jul 11, 2012, at 08:41 AM, Matt Giuca wrote:I really don't want to fuel the fire here, but I'd just like to speak with some experience on both sides of the patch/pull game.You and Pedro seem to stick with only what you prefer with the Soundfont specs and GS-specs, both of which only deal with 1

Re: [fluid-dev] Pedro's rant (was: OSC support)

2012-07-09 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jul 09, 2012, at 02:36 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:On Monday 09 July 2012, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: > You ignored my post by not answering a simple question. I had no obligation to answer, and much less to do so within a time frame of your convenience. PedroAt least have the courtesy

Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

2012-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jul 09, 2012, at 01:08 AM, Peter Eastman wrote:I didn't come here to argue. I'm suggesting ways to make FluidSynth a better program. If you don't want my help or ideas, just say so and I'll go away. Peter PeterI would be delighted to have your help and I'm sure that there a many others who fee

Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

2012-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jul 09, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:> Once again, do you know of any sequencer applications that use "qmidinet" > ? Qmidinet is a gateway between the network and native MIDI applications for Linux (ALSA and Jack). Any Linux sequencer using ALSA sequencer or Jack can be u

Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

2012-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Pedro Once again, do you know of any sequencer applications that use "qmidinet" ? E Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: > > > On Jul 08, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas > wrote: > >> An alternative for transpor

Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

2012-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jul 08, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:An alternative for transporting MIDI over a network is RTP MIDI, with drivers included in both Mac OSX and iOS. Pedro, I haven't used "RTP MIDI" but that also sounds interesting. Do you know of any sequencer applications that use "qmidine

Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

2012-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jul 08, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Stefan Sauer wrote:On 07/08/2012 03:24 PM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote:Hello all While MIDI (GM, sysex etc.) is great (after all these years), it would be a pity to exclude OSC. One thing is evident about OSC: OSC is a kind of "wireless MIDI" which would be a gre

Re: [fluid-dev] OSC support

2012-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello allWhile MIDI (GM, sysex etc.) is great (after all these years), it would be a pity to exclude OSC. One thing is evident about OSC: OSC is a kind of "wireless MIDI" which would be a great feature. Using both MIDI and OSC is great to have: lots of sequencer applications now do this; for exampl

Re: [fluid-dev] making a standalone fluidsynth plugin on Mac

2012-03-28 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Antoine Schmitt wrote: Ok ! Cross-reading your answer, adn Ebrahim's, I figured that I needed to include all the closure of the dependencies along with my delivery : glib and gthread, but also iconv and intl, and use install_name_tool to modify all mutual inte

Re: [fluid-dev] making a standalone fluidsynth plugin on Mac

2012-03-27 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Mar 27, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Antoine Schmitt wrote: Thanks Ebrahim. This is incredibly complex ! I cannot believe that I am the only one having this problem. How do you people deploy fluidsynth-based executables on machines that do not have glib installed ? Or is glib installed on all linux

Re: [fluid-dev] making a standalone fluidsynth plugin on Mac

2012-03-26 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Mar 25, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Antoine Schmitt wrote: Hi list, coming back on this. I stippped down my dependencies, and now my Xtra only depends on glib and gthread. But now I am stuck again, trying to not depend on these shlibs. - I used Sven install_name_tool idea, which seems to work and l

Re: [fluid-dev] making a standalone fluidsynth plugin on Mac

2012-03-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Saturday 10 March 2012, Antoine Schmitt wrote: Hi list, I'm currently porting my fluidsynth Xtra (name for Adobe Director plugin, i.e. a shared library that is dynamically loaded into the final executable) to fluidsynth 1.1.5. Previously, it was on 1.0.7. (visible on www.schmittmachine.com/flu

Re: [fluid-dev] Building fluidsynth 1.1.5 on MacOS Lion

2011-10-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Jason Vasquez wrote: Hello all, I just built fluidsynth 1.1.5 for the first time on MacOS Lion, and thought I'd pass this along. I had to make a couple changes from the build process I used previously for 1.1.3 on Snow Leopard, so I'm not 100% positive as to which

Re: [fluid-dev] Another application using FluidSynth announced

2011-09-13 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:58 AM, David Henningsson wrote: There are two dimensions here. First, there is the issue of whether we can take action against App Store, and that depends on how we interpret the LGPL, and second, whether we actually proceed with taking that action, which depends on o

Re: [fluid-dev] Defining a standard directory for soundfonts

2011-09-06 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:42 AM, David Henningsson wrote: Ok, good point. Maybe there are a usage cases for both? Thanks also to Pedro and Orcan for looking up the current situation in major distros. Let me summarise: Debian (and derivatives such as Ubuntu): Directory: /usr/share/sounds/sf2 Fil

Re: [fluid-dev] Feedback from LAC

2011-05-17 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On May 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, David Henningsson wrote: On 2011-05-14 13:05, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Would it be possible to post your presentation video in an alternative format somewhere on the net ? (mp4, avi,… or even YouTube ?) :-) Many thanks for sharing, Feel free to do so. (I assume

Re: [fluid-dev] Feedback from LAC

2011-05-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On May 13, 2011, at 4:02 AM, David Henningsson wrote: When I held my LAC presentation, I got some feedback saying that FluidSynth is a well working program that was useful to a lot of people in the room. And so I would just want to relay that feedback to all of you who have contributed to

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-16 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 15, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2011, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: What happens when you try and render a MIDI file using FluidSynth ? (I I can't reproduce your problem when rendering MIDI files in my Mac. But again, I don't have acc

Re: [fluid-dev] OS X build

2011-04-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Sven Meier wrote: BTW why is it that the resulting shared library is named "Fluidsynth"? Wouldn't libfluidsynth.dylib be more appropriate? Sven Many thanks for your testing earlier. If you build with the enable-framework option you will build an OS X framewor

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:I've attached a document containing the terminal output and the qsynth console output when lauching qsynth with the following commands:$ export DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1$ open qsynth.appPedroThe Terminal.app outputs from both your setup and min

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-13 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: I assume you mean that it doesn't work *in your system*. I can only test it in my own intel mac, where it runs just fine. Please note that Qsynth-0.3.4 and fluidsynth-1.1.3 work fine with *all the same soundfonts*. the package co

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 10, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Try with other soundfont files, renaming that file, or moving it to another location. *No soundfont files work with qsynth-0.3.6 on OS X.* Please note that Qsynth-0.3.4 and fluidsynth-1.1.3 work fine with *all the same soundfonts*

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-10 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 10, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2011, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Okay, I tried with coreaudio but I still cannot load a soundfont The app bundle does not include any soundfont file. You must provide one, and configure its location in qsynth/setup

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-10 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 10, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: I've not included jack, midishare, libsndfile, or any other optional dependencies. Only coreaudio and coremidi drivers, and of course the required libraries glib and gthread are bundled into qsynth.app, along with Qt4. Regards, P

Re: [fluid-dev] qsynth 0.3.6 for mac osx

2011-04-10 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 10, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Hi, I've uploaded a Mac OSX package to SourceForge with an universal bundle of QSynth 0.3.6, that should work in Intel and PowerPC Macs without external dependencies. It uses the new FluidSynth framework build type from trunk.

Re: [fluid-dev] Sending MIDI Events from a MIDI Keyboard on Mac OS X

2011-03-27 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Mar 27, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Bastien Dejean wrote: Hi, I thought by reading the man page that I could just plug my USB MIDI Keyboard, launch fluidsynth with a soundfont as argument and play. But it seems I'm missing something. I tried 'fluidsynth -d -m coremidi x.sf2' but I don't see any MI

Re: [fluid-dev] Multiple audio drivers

2010-12-03 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Felix Krause wrote: I'd like to have FluidSynth to generate sound output and at the same time write the audio output to a file. So I tried to create a "file" audio driver and a "coreaudio" audio driver with the same synthesizer as parameter. Turns out this doesn

Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI files cannot be rendered using certain svn revs

2010-11-15 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Matt Giuca wrote: It still works fine for me, on Ubuntu 10.04. Are you on a Mac? I'm guessing you might be, because the commit log for r388 (which you claim to be the start of the breakage) is "Mac CoreAudio driver adapted to AuHAL." Hello Matt That is corre

[fluid-dev] MIDI files cannot be rendered using certain svn revs

2010-11-15 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello again While testing revision 393 I realized that MIDI files could not be rendered. Investigating further, I found that the MIDI file rendering function in fluidsynth revisions 388-393 is broken while MIDI file rendering works in revisions 387 down to 385. Regards Ebrahim __

Re: [fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 14, 2010, at 4:32 AM, David Henningsson wrote: True or not true - that discussion belongs to fink or cmake lists rather than this one. Good Day David I agree. In fact, I was not the one who brought up this topic since this is not an issue for me. The "cmake" message was forwarded a

Re: [fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:08 PM, David Henningsson wrote: May I kindly ask you to bring the issue of CMake's packaging issues in Fink, to the fink list instead of the fluidsynth list? It seems more likely to reach the right people. IMHO, CMake has done some things better than autotools [1], an

[fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-09 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 9, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: and talking about harmony and friendship, let's see this quote from a recent thread in fink-devel:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.devel/19876 On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: I tried updating audaciou

[fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-09 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: The curses based "ccmake" is fine, too. But I wonder that you are using a top class graphical system, Mac OSX, and at the same time you prefer a terminal based tool instead of the modern cmake-gui, much more in the line of your favor

[fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: The curses based "ccmake" is fine, too. But I wonder that you are using a top class graphical system, Mac OSX, and at the same time you prefer a terminal based tool instead of the modern cmake-gui, much more in the line of your favo

[fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 8, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: There are other options whose names are defined in uppercase, though. Be careful. You shouldn't need to write the variable types (BOOL). To avoid headaches, use the GUI front-end and the mouse to check/uncheck nice checkboxes. $

[fluid-dev] cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

2010-11-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello Pedro Working with revision 393, $ cmake .. -DENABLE_PORTAUDIO:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_FRAMEWORK:BOOL=OFF // ** Summary: libsndfile:yes (with ogg vorbis support) D-Bus: yes PulseAudio:no JACK:

Re: [fluid-dev] MacOSX status

2010-11-04 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Hi, Here is a summary of the latest changes I've made in FluidSynth and QSynth Subversion repositories. * CoreAudio driver now uses the HAL output AudioUnit. I hope this solves the problems reported by Victor Lazzarini last month

[fluid-dev] [ANN] The fink packages for fluidsynth-1.1.3 is now available

2010-10-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello fluidsynth users on OS X I have provided two fluidsynth packages for the 1.1.3 version. The first one called "fluidsynth" is the autotools-built version of fluidsynth which is recommended for end-users. In addition to coreaudio support, portaudio support will also be compiled into the

Re: [fluid-dev] compatibility version problem

2010-10-09 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:33 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:34:12 +0200 "Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas" wrote: The autotools build system uses libtool, and these funny numbers are a consequence of the libtool numbering scheme. The numbers are absurd, BTW. What means the current version

Re: [fluid-dev] Imminent 1.1.3 release?

2010-10-09 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: On Oct 8, 2010, at 3:34 PM, David Henningsson wrote: Good. I've started to prepare the 1.1.3 release, see https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_3 Hi David I would also like to acknowledge the contributio

Re: [fluid-dev] Imminent 1.1.3 release?

2010-10-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 8, 2010, at 3:34 PM, David Henningsson wrote: On 2010-10-08 20:00, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Friday 08 October 2010, David Henningsson wrote: I get the feeling that trunk is in quite good shape now, with just low-regression-risc bugfixes since 1.1.2, so perhaps we should relea

Re: [fluid-dev] compatibility version problem

2010-10-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 8, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Then, you shouldn't allow to upgrade packages created with both build systems. This is a packaging problem. One solution may be to add an "epoch" number, like Debian does sometimes, to the package created using the CMake build sys

Re: [fluid-dev] Imminent 1.1.3 release?

2010-10-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: All major distributions have adopted the CMake build system in 1.1.2 without finding obstacles, but I would keep the old one during some more time. Yes, I agree. Ebrahim ___ fluid-dev mai

Re: [fluid-dev] Patches (was Re: [ fink-Package Submissions-3074237 ] fluidsynth-1.1.2)

2010-10-07 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Please find attached the proposed patch. Regards, Ebrahim synth.h.patch Description: Binary data ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] Patches (was Re: [ fink-Package Submissions-3074237 ] fluidsynth-1.1.2)

2010-10-07 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Thursday 07 October 2010, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: I don't see any problem in removing the comma. perl -pi -e 's/R = 7,/R = 7/' include/fluidsynth/synth.h You are proposing a perl one-liner instead of a standard uni

[fluid-dev] cmake equivalent of configure options

2010-10-06 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello What are the cmake equivalents of the following configure options: --disable-static --docdir --libdir --infodir --datarootdir --includedir --mandir --bindir and also fluidsynth-specific options like --disable-alsa Thanks in advance, E ___ fluid

[fluid-dev] Re: [PlanetCCRMA] fluidsynth-dssi

2010-10-02 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Before I post a bug report on Bugzilla: 1) Is anyone else having the same problem ? Yes, this issue has been reported on both the LAU

[fluid-dev] compatibility version problem

2010-09-30 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello again In the transition from autotools to cmake on OS X, I came across version number compatibility issue for the libfluidsynth shared library.. The names and version numbers of libfluidsynth are: 1. using autotools for the previous version of fluidsynth-1.1.1 /sw/lib/libfluidsynth.

[fluid-dev] fluidsynth-1.1.1 in the 10.4 tree of fink

2010-09-29 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
EDT To: Ebrahim Mayat Cc: Fink Developers Mailing List Subject: Fwd: [cvs] dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/sound fluidsynth.info, 1.7, 1.8 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. There was an extra comma in an enum field in fluidsynth/synth.h which caused scummvm (and likely other

Re: [fluid-dev] coreaudio driver bug

2010-09-24 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sep 24, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone, I have installed version 1.1.12 and yes, the preset-reset is not there anymore, thanks. It works fine now. Glad to hear that! Except for the coreaudio driver. Here is the description of the bug: 1. with this command-line

Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth bugs

2010-09-23 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:26 PM, victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie wrote: Regarding the first problem, I have identified in my first e-mail the API function that uses the reset-presets parameter. All you need to do is implement an option for the command-line to set that parameter. I can suggest the code

Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth bugs

2010-09-23 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sep 23, 2010, at 2:16 PM, victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie wrote: Sorry, but my midi file has plenty of PCs in it. With my own fluidsynth client (and other software) it plays as expected. The problem is the reset-presets parameter in the sfont loading function. For starters, you could send your

Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth bugs

2010-09-23 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone there seems to be a couple of bugs with fluidsynth (1.1.1, command- line program): 1. It resets all channes to prg 1, so when you play a midifile, all we get is piano from GM soundfonts. I have asked about this here, but

Re: [fluid-dev] cmake build error

2010-08-06 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Fixed in SVN revision 334. Pedro Thanks, works for accurately rendering a couple of MIDI files that I have. It was not a problem related to CMake, by the way. Yes, I had indicated the source of the error (fluid_rtkit.c) in my

[fluid-dev] cmake build error

2010-08-05 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello I have the dbus headers installed -- checking for module 'dbus-1>=1.0.0' -- found dbus-1, version 1.2.16 ...but I still get the following error [ 97%] Building C object src/CMakeFiles/libfluidsynth.dir/bindings/ fluid_filerenderer.c.o Linking C shared library libfluidsynth.dylib

Re: [fluid-dev] Migrating FluidSynth services

2010-03-31 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 10:35 -0700, j...@resonance.org wrote: > Hello FluidSynth developers and users, > > I will be moving FluidSynth services off of the resonance.org domain. > I wanted to ask if there are any opinions or ideas on options for the > various hosted components of the FluidSynth

Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth's volume is too "dynamic"

2010-01-22 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 23:11 +0100, Sebastian Biallas wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using fluidsynth to play piano using rosegarden and an old MIDI > keyboard (technics KN440). > > Since fluidsynth 1.0.9 the sound output is way too dynamic. If I press a > key soft it's barely hearable and if I press it

Re: [fluid-dev] Future Chorus and Reverb for fluidsynth

2010-01-04 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:44 PM, j...@resonance.org wrote: Quoting Graham Goode : Hi Guys, This is not for the 1.1.1 RC release, but perhaps more a question for 1.2 or 2.0... Will fluidsynth use the LV2 audio plugin standard? (LV2 is a simple but extensible successor of LADSPA - http://lv2plug.in

[fluid-dev] coreaudio or jack support for fluidsynth-1.1.1 on fink ?

2009-11-22 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Fellow Readers I will be preparing a fink package for the new version of fluidsynth in a short while. Since I have the option of preparing this package with either coreaudio or jack support, I would like some feedback as to which alternative you would prefer. Regards, Ebrahim

Re: [fluid-dev] Thread safety long-term thoughts

2009-11-18 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:13 AM, David Henningsson wrote: // I'm not sure about the fifth (I/O procs) thread, is that something used internally by libraries we use? What does it do? My sketchy idea about this is that this thread is kernel-related (at least on OS X); it is created by the hard

Re: [fluid-dev] Jack and CoreAudio are mutually exclusive

2009-11-17 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 16:57 -0800, j...@resonance.org wrote: > Hello Ebrahim, // > > It sounds as if you may have multiple audio interfaces? I notice that > the FluidSynth coreaudio driver doesn't currently have support for > specifying which audio device to use. Seems a call to > AudioDev

Re: [fluid-dev] Thread safety long-term thoughts

2009-11-17 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:47 AM, David Henningsson wrote: While the recent thread safety improvements are much better than the previous handling (since the previous had unpredictable crashes), the recent postings, the shadow variable workaround, and the multi- core support got me thinking. See

[fluid-dev] Jack and CoreAudio are mutually exclusive

2009-11-17 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello again I just tried 271 and sound driver function has changed as follows: If Jack is linked during compilation, fluidsynth can be run with jack as the audio driver but it cannot be run with the coreaudio driver: $ fluidsynth -a coreaudio ~/sf2/GeneralUser_GS_FluidSynth_v1.43_RC1.sf2 F

Re: [fluid-dev] Time to release?

2009-11-15 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 14, 2009, at 6:03 PM, David Henningsson wrote: I've just committed a small patch which updates the synthesis thread variable at every call to fluid_synth_one_block, which should fix Ebrahim's thread-jumping problem. Assuming Ebrahim confirms that it is fixed, perhaps it is time to re

Re: [fluid-dev] Time to release?

2009-11-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 00:03 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > I've just committed a small patch which updates the synthesis thread > variable at every call to fluid_synth_one_block, which should fix > Ebrahim's thread-jumping problem. Assuming Ebrahim confirms that it is > fixed, perhaps it is t

Re: [fluid-dev] Fwd: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency

2009-11-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 23:44 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > On Saturday, November 14, 2009, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: > > Perhaps you could > > try something more realistic: like Rachmaninoff, Liszt or even Chopin > > solo pieces, maybe Paganini...or even Keith Eme

Re: [fluid-dev] Fwd: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency

2009-11-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Message to be forwarded to LAU. > > Asunto: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency > Fecha: Saturday, November 14, 2009 > De: Guru Prasad > Para: lau > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Asunto: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency > Fecha: Saturday, N

Re: [fluid-dev] Fwd: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency

2009-11-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 21:56 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > On Saturday, November 14, 2009, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 12:29 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > > > > > Asunto: Re

Re: [fluid-dev] Fwd: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency

2009-11-14 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 12:29 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Asunto: Re: [LAU] Fluidsynth, soundfonts, jack, and latency > Fecha: Saturday, November 14, 2009 > De: Guru Prasad > Para: lau > > Hello everyone, > Finally! Here's a quick update

[fluid-dev] Crash caused by hot-plugging audio

2009-11-10 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello all I happened to stumble upon a way to make the new fluidsynth crash. This is a minor bug which I can live with but I'll report it anyway. Fluidsynth can be launched and executed to obtain audio output from my computer's speakers. But when I try to patch the computer's audio output

Re: [fluid-dev] Problem compiling from svn source on MacOSX

2009-11-04 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Felix Krause wrote: I'm on Snow Leopard 10.6.1. host-triplet: i386-apple-darwin10.0.0 libtoolize: (GNU libtool) 2.2.6 automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.10 autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 Felix My working setup: aclocal (GNU automake)

Re: [fluid-dev] Problem compiling from svn source on MacOSX

2009-11-03 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Felix Krause wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to compile fluidsynth from svn source on MacOSX. autogen.sh gives me the following output: libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DI

[fluid-dev] Re: exporting SYSEX files from fluidsynth

2009-10-12 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:17 -0700, j...@resonance.org wrote: > No, FluidSynth doesn't parse .scl directly. What we've added is > support for SYSEX commands embedded in MIDI data. So you could add > the proper MTS SYSEX commands into a MIDI file. This is better than > the pitch bender hack

[fluid-dev] exporting SYSEX files from fluidsynth

2009-10-11 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:11 AM, j...@resonance.org wrote: Its called the MIDI Tuning Standard. There are 2 different forms of it. The older one doesn't properly support tuning bank #s. They created a second revision of it to fix that oversight and provide some additional things (such as o

Re: [fluid-dev] Role of glib

2009-08-27 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Thursday, 27 August, 2009, at 10:51PM, wrote: > >Autotools is one of the things that gets blamed sometimes for making >builds difficult on Windows, which is why I mentioned it. Most users >building software just want to use some sort of IDE, without having to >have a Unix like environm

Re: [fluid-dev] Role of glib

2009-08-27 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:03 PM, j...@resonance.org wrote: Indeed, the platform maintainers deserve much credit! We should start by officially appointing the positions. Ebrahim Mayat has been from the beginning the OS X maintainer. As for Windows, there have been contributions from many

Re: [fluid-dev] cross-compiling on MacOSX

2009-08-03 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Aug 3, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Felix Krause wrote: Hi all, I want to compile a universal binary of the FluidSynth library on my Intel Mac. To get a PPC binary, I tried ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0 but it still compiled an Intel version. How do I make it compile a PPC versi

Re: [fluid-dev] Re: MIDI Standard Specs

2009-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:34 -0700, j...@resonance.org wrote: > I agree, especially since a given Reverb value is implementation > dependent as to how it affects the sound. I doubt many people design > MIDI songs that rely on the default reverb being 40. Depending on how > the FluidSynth Re

Re: [fluid-dev] Re: MIDI Standard Specs

2009-07-08 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 11:53 -0500, S. Christian Collins wrote: > SoundFont synths that I have used over the years (such as the EMU10K1 > synths) seem to put the default reverb at 0. Personally, I think this > is preferred. I think reverb (like chorus) is one of those settings > that should be lef

[fluid-dev] Re: unable to install fluidsynth for Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:41 -0400, Randy S Miller wrote: > Sir, > > I have been attempting to install FluidSynth on my Mac. When I > attempt to use fink to install fluidsynth, I get the message "Failed: > no package found for specification 'fluidsynth'." I have not been > able to find flui

[fluid-dev] qsynth now a fink package

2009-07-04 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
be installed by simply invoking : "fink install qsynth" Ebrahim Mayat ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth with jack: one channel per MIDI instrument

2009-06-17 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 06:16 +0200, laurent schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > Can we define or set one jack audio channel output per MIDI instrument > used ? > > It could allow me to apply a custom effect on each instrument. > > Is there a plan to develop this functionality ? In addition to Pedro's sugg

[fluid-dev] [ANN] Qsynth-0.3.4 application for OS X

2009-06-12 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
peak meters refresh rate. - MIDI and audio device names are now user selectable options through respective drop-down lists on each engine setup dialog. - New knob style: Skulpture. Further details can be found in the README document packaged with the qsynth application. Cheers && En

Re: [fluid-dev] Build of fluidsynth/qsynth for Mac OS-X for a friend

2009-05-27 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On May 26, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Graham Goode wrote: Hi Ebrahim, He has a Macbook Pro 2.4 Ghz Intel core duo Running OS X 10.5.7 with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR 2 SDRAM. Do you need any more info? Thanks! GrahamG Graham I am sending off-list, the tarball containing the universal binary of fluidsynth.

Re: [fluid-dev] Build of fluidsynth/qsynth for Mac OS-X for a friend

2009-05-26 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On May 26, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Graham Goode wrote: Hi, I don't use OS X (I use Windows and Linux), but I have a friend who wants to use fluidsynth on his Mac. Does anyone have a package for the Mac or could someone create a zip of their build so that I could send it to him? Preferably with Qsynth

Fwd: [fluid-dev] fink package

2009-05-03 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On May 3, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Felix Krause wrote: Hi, I tested the current unstable fink package of fluidsynth 1.0.9 and found both the command line tool and the library compiling and working properly on MacOSX 10.5.6 Intel. I'm looking forward to a stable release. Sure. But I also have to

Re: [fluid-dev] fink package

2009-05-03 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Felix The following link should be of help in the meantime. http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable HTH. E ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth on 64-bit Linux

2009-04-20 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Josh Green wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 16:59 -0400, Ebrahim Mayat wrote: Hello To 64-bit Debian users, I am forwarding this message that I received off-list. It would be appreciated if anybody could assist/test on 64-bit Linux. The latest svn (r168) has

[fluid-dev] Fluidsynth on 64-bit Linux

2009-04-04 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello To 64-bit Debian users, I am forwarding this message that I received off-list. It would be appreciated if anybody could assist/test on 64-bit Linux. The latest svn (r168) has a persistent make error, when compiling from source. On 64studio 64bit:

Re: [fluid-dev] Preparing for 1.0.9 release

2009-03-16 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Josh, Pedro and Bernat As a service to Linux users, I propose that the 'GeneralUser GS FluidSynth v1.43.rgd" file written by S Christian Collins be made available as part of the new release distribution. Configuring rosegarden with this 'studio file' makes rosegarden work seamlessly with fluidsynt

[fluid-dev] Fluidsynth to be included in the Fink Package Distribution

2009-03-01 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Lopez-Cabanillas for implementing support for the OS X-native CoreMIDI driver in fluidsynth. Details regarding installation and program execution will be outlined in the README-OSX document of the next release. Ebrahim Mayat ___ fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] FS2.0 proposal

2009-03-01 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Bernat Arlandis i Mañó wrote: Hi. Sorry for the long wait but I'm a bit busy lately. This is how it's gonna be since this is something I have to do on my spare time so there will be ups and lows inevitably, but I'm firmly decide to get there with your help.

Re: [fluid-dev] What is "tuning" good for?

2009-02-22 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Sunday, February 22, 2009, at 04:11AM, "Butrus Damaskus" wrote: >Hi! > >Could someone, please, explain to me, what is the "tunings" good for? I >Greped the source and was a little bit confused of what it is aimed for. > >(My Idea was to implement some other tuning systems than the "Equal >te

LADSPA and LV2 was "Re: [fluid-dev] One output per channel"

2009-01-29 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
List readers I forgot that LADSPA headers are required for compiling the DSSI host which in turn is required for the dssi-vst plugin wrapper for VST effects. So LADSPA is not exactly disposable (no pun intended). E ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-de

Re: [fluid-dev] One output per channel

2009-01-29 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:32 +0100, Bernat Arlandis i Mañó wrote: > It scales pretty well, the reverb/chorus processing time multiplies by > the number of channels, but still acceptable. With all 16 channels I got > around 70% CPU load in my tests with an AMD64 2Ghz. There's some room > for impr

Re: [fluid-dev] One output per channel

2009-01-29 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:37 +0100, Bernat Arlandis i Mañó wrote: > What do you think about fixing ticket #21 for 1.09? Without this, > multi-channel output cannot be enabled from QSynth. > Excellent idea. I'm all for it. Then it would also be easy to prepare a midnam file (for the General Users

[fluid-dev] Re: CoreMIDI driver changes

2009-01-28 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
Hello Following up from yesterday, I just tried the new enhanced CoreMIDI feature with a dual port MIDI interface and sure enough I can trigger samples of two different soundfonts from the two MIDI ports. Also worth noting, is that I could also use the CoreMIDI driver in SWAMI after selec

[fluid-dev] Editing ticket #18

2009-01-28 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jan 27, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Josh Green wrote: I just successfully registered an account and was able to at least preview changes in the ticket system (didn't actually submit anything). What is the issue in particular? Any error messages? I just logged in successfully and ticket #18 is no

[fluid-dev] Re: CoreMIDI driver changes

2009-01-27 Thread Ebrahim Mayat
On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: Not sure what this means. QSynth is not yet ready to understand the options for the new coremidi driver. It knows the Jack audio driver, though. Jack requires a different client name for each instance, QSynth being aware of this and

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