Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

[Peter Billam]

Hi.   I wrote:
> Well, in fluidsynth.lua version 1.2
>    http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/lua/fluidsynth.html#read_config_file
> I've gone for a default config file ~/.config/fluidsynth
>    ~> cat ~/.config/fluidsynth
>    audio.driver = alsa
>    synth.polyphony = 1024
>    load /home/soundfonts/MyGM.sf2
>    load /home/soundfonts/ReallyGoodPiano.sf2

David Henningsson wrote:
> There is also the "set" shell command, i e "set audio.driver alsa"
> instead of your "a = b" syntax.  ...
> Btw, looking at the code, the fluidsynth executable also seems
> to automatically run shell commands from ~/.fluidsynth and
> /etc/fluidsynth.conf. (The fluid_get_sysconf and fluid_get_userconf
> commands can be used to get these filenames.)

Ah, excellent !  I'll adopt all those :-)

Just what I needed.  Deprecate 1.2; hold on for 1.3.

> The problem is though that some things should be set before creating the
> synth (and other objects), such as which audio driver to use, and other
> things need to be done afterwards, such as which soundfonts to load.

Yup.  It's a solvable problem, though.

Many thanks,
Peter Billam

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