Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

[Stefan Sauer]

On 08/25/2014 11:13 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
>
>
> On 2014-08-24 16:34, Stefan Kost wrote:
>> Am 24.08.2014 05:42, schrieb Peter Billam:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I keep wishing there was some little config file, maybe:
>>>    ~> cat ~/.fluidsynth/config
>>>    audio:
>>>      alsa
>>>    soundfonts:
>>>      /home/soundfonts/MyGM.sf2
>>>      /home/soundfonts/ReallyGoodPiano.sf2
>>>
>>> something like that.
>>> (In fact it would almost fit in an environment variable)
>>>
>>> Has any other fluidsynth app adopted a config file format
>>> (or environment variable) that I could adopt/reuse/share ?
>
> In general, the fluidsynth settings system could use some
> thinking/overhaul, as some things you want to do is done by using
> settings, other things can be done from the shell, and some can be
> done from both.
>
>> I posted this previously. Having a specification where an application
>> should
>> look for soundfonts would be nice. This could be a fallback-path and an
>> environment variable (e.g. SF2_PATH). Right now I am have a heuristic
>> in my code:
>> https://github.com/Buzztrax/gst-buzztrax/blob/master/src/fluidsynth/fluidsynth.c#L729
>>
>> https://github.com/Buzztrax/gst-buzztrax/blob/master/src/fluidsynth/fluidsynth.c#L293
>>
>
> In latest git head, there is a "synth.default-soundfont" option.
>
> The fluidsynth executable uses it if you have not specified a midi
> file but not a soundfont on the command line.

I am using fluidsynth as a library in a gstreamer plugin. Therefore it's
me who has to configure the synthfont to use. If we don't want to do
such a specification (of a sf2 path), this could also be inmplemented in
fluidsynth as a utility function. That spares apps to re-implement this.

Stefan
>
> You can also read the default value in your application by creating a
> settings object and then use fluid_settings_getstr().
>
> // David
>
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