Re: [fluid-dev] Re: fluidsynth on mac OS X

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Ebrahim Mayat hat gesagt: // Ebrahim Mayat wrote:

> The reason for this is that even though there is no problem for 
> fluidsynth to become a client in Jack, there is no MIDI driver for 
> fluidsynth (previously known as msSynthDriver) in the present version 
> of MidiShare (1.87). So, fluidsynth cannot act as a MIDI source.  
> (MidiShare did have this capability for iiwusynth.)
> 
> According to my recent correspondence with Stéphane Letz, he and his 
> colleagues are actively developing this driver under CVS.
> 
> Ideally, I would like to use fluidsynth in a live or quasi-live setting 
> using a laptop.

An alternative would be to use my fluid~ external for Pd on OS-X.
You'd need to compile a bit more, namely flext and fluid~, and you
currently cannot use the fluidsynth effects in fluid~ but in general
this will work.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__