Re: [fluid-dev] How to send manual midi commands to fluidsynth from another program?

[Josh Green]

Hello,

As Pedro suggested, you could control FluidSynth via TCP/IP.  If you
want finer grained control over FluidSynth and don't mind writing C
code, then you could use FluidSynth as a shared library.  This is how
Swami and QSynth use FluidSynth.

Best regards,
        Josh


On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:50 +0000, John O'Hagan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing an algorithmic music program which generates lists of numbers 
> representing notes and durations. The results can be printed as scores and 
> played as midi files using lilypond, and to play the results as they are 
> generated (i.e., bar by bar), I'm using the sox synth.
> 
> That's pretty limited, however, so I thought that fluidsynth might be the way 
> forward. 
> 
> The simplest solution would be to translate my number lists into noteon 
> commands, etc, and pipe them to fluidsynth.
> 
> But I need a little help understanding the fluidsynth shell. 
> 
> When that is active, I can type commands in, but I cant figure out how to 
> pipe 
> them from my program. I tried sending a file object to stdout but it seemed 
> to just disappear. Also, when I try to run fluidsynth with the -i switch, (no 
> shell), it seems to start up, then immediately exit.
> 
> I can get a result by translating my data  into a text-to-midi program, then 
> piping that to, say, pmidi, which plays via fluidsynth, but that seems very 
> roundabout.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> John O'Hagan
> 
> 
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