Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

[Stefan Sauer]

On 08/26/2014 03:42 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>From where would fluid_settings_getstr("synth.default-soundfont") get
that default sf2 if the app does not pass it? And yes, I'd like to get a
*list* of sound fonts.

Stefan

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> // David
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