Re: [fluid-dev] Introductions and interest in FluidSynth

[Antoine Schmitt]

Hello all,
rapid introduction:

I'm 47 and living in Paris, France. I'm both a programming consultant (www.schmittmachine.com 
) and an artist (www.gratin.org/as/), using programming as a main  
artistic material : things that act by themselves, programmed freedom,  
things like this...

I started using fluidsynth when it was called iiwu, as part of a  
generative music composition tool (www.infiniteCD.org), of which one  
of the bricks was fluidXtra, an Xtra (plugin) for Macromedia (now  
Adobe) Director (www.schmittmachine.com/fluidXtra.html). This Xtra  
provides all the functionnalities of fluidsynth, and more, to the  
Director programming environment, on Mac and Windows. This Xtra is  
actually quite popular since it is the only full featured synthesizer  
in the Abode Director world. And it is free (gratis) and opensource,  
and works online in browsers (as Director Xtras are autodownloadable).

As part of the fluidXtra effort, I designed with Peter Hanappe (the  
original designer of fluidsynth) the sequencer API, and I implemented  
it inside fluidsynth. So I am partly to blame for the slightly bogus  
timing implementation of the sequencer...
As part of this effort, I also helped port the synth to Mac OS9,  
MacOSX and Windows (under Visual and DirectX).

Using Director and fluid, I created many of my personal audio and  
musical artworks, especially using the realtime effects and the  
sequencer features for realtime audio and music generation systems.

At some point, I also created a plugin version of the fluidsynth for  
the Virtools (www.virtools.com) 3D authoring tool (Windows), but it is  
not maintained anymore since the Virtools SDK is now closed.

Unfortulately, I don't have much time to help implementing patches to  
fluidsynth these days, but I can give my advices and ideas...

Right now, I'm planning to port fluidsynth to iPhone, as a basis for  
various musical apps, which should nto be very difficult. I will keep  
you posted on this.

Cheers !