[fluid-dev] More on getting FluidSynth/Swami to work on OS X (was fluidsynth's panther performance)

[Josh Green]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 22:53, Joe Corneli wrote:
> Thanks for the links to the MidiShare download page.  I don't know
> if these links are accessible from the "main page"
> www.grame.fr/MidiShare/  -- not transparently (to me) anyway.
> 

Yeah they are accessible but the web site design seems rather
un-intuitive. I got there via "Go to the MidiShare Web Pages" ->
"Installing" -> Macintosh:MacOSX.

> Now I'm afraid I am not able to figure out how to _use_ MidiShare now
> that I have it installed.  I'm looking for a command like
> 
> fluidsynth -a coreaudio -m <midishare-driver> ...
> 

>From what I can see I think it is "-m midishare". I've never used
MidiShare myself so at the moment I can't really help you beyond that.

> Oh yes, by the way, for one reason or another the portaudio test
> maxsines isn't working on my machine now.  Maybe its because I have
> 10.3 installed, but more likely I've screwed things up in some other way
> myself.   I'd be willing to use a crunchy coreaudio rather than a
> broken portaudio until something better comes along.
> 

I'm going to have a go at getting the coreaudio stuff working tonight,
so maybe this will be working by tomorrow, maybe not.

> Using Swami sounds like a good option since it does its own midi driving
> (I'm assuming that it's keyboard layout is as configurable that of
> clavier).  I'd certainly be interested in giving it a try.  
> 

Not sure how configurable clavier is, so I can't really compare them. I
just realized recently that playing instruments on multiple channels
doesn't work in Swami, so I'm fixing that, and I will probably be adding
some additional things as well. If you don't know what Swami is, its a
SoundFont editor and in the future I'd like to make it a good front end
for FluidSynth (right now it lacks in many areas in this regard, but is
quite nice in others). The 0.9.0 GTK 1.2 code base of Swami has
experienced some bit rot, since it has been taking me so long to get the
development version releasable (what will be 1.0). Trying to accomplish
too many things at once I guess :)  The version 0.9.0 keyboard isn't
scalable, and its main purpose is for setting note split ranges. The 1.0
version of Swami will feature a scalable keyboard with velocity
sensitive keys, etc.

> Joe

Cheers.
        Josh Green