Re: [fluid-dev] Should playback_callback receive MIDI file events?

[David Henningsson]

On 09/20/2011 02:31 AM, Matt Giuca wrote:
>     Please do send all events (including meta events).  Perhaps you
>     don't need them with your Midi files, but I have work with Midi
>     segments that changes tempo (perhaps even time signature 3/4 <->
>     4/4) on the fly.  So looping back will need the meta events
>     (tempo...) to play properly.  There are other meta events, too.
>
>
> Note that FluidSynth's player automatically handles SET_TEMPO events
> (even though it doesn't forward them), so you shouldn't need to handle
> them manually. But I take your point.

So the question is what to do about the SET_TEMPO event? I think the 
most reasonable at this point would be to both handle it and pass it on 
to the callback, even if that would disable the callback's possibility 
to override/handle the set_tempo event itself.

// David