Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-08-25 13:49, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> On 08/25/2014 11:13 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
> > On 2014-08-24 16:34, Stefan Kost wrote:
> > > 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.

Not sure exactly what you want such a utility function to do? Look for 
soundfonts in a set of directories?

The fluid_settings_getstr("synth.default-soundfont") gives you a 
filename that you can present to the user as a first soundfont 
suggestion - that the user should be able to override, of course.

// David