Hello,
As Pedro suggested, you could control FluidSynth via TCP/IP. If you
want finer grained control over FluidSynth and don't mind writing C
code, then you could use FluidSynth as a shared library. This is how
Swami and QSynth use FluidSynth.
Best regards,
Josh
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:50 +0000, John O'Hagan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing an algorithmic music program which generates lists of numbers
> representing notes and durations. The results can be printed as scores and
> played as midi files using lilypond, and to play the results as they are
> generated (i.e., bar by bar), I'm using the sox synth.
>
> That's pretty limited, however, so I thought that fluidsynth might be the way
> forward.
>
> The simplest solution would be to translate my number lists into noteon
> commands, etc, and pipe them to fluidsynth.
>
> But I need a little help understanding the fluidsynth shell.
>
> When that is active, I can type commands in, but I cant figure out how to
> pipe
> them from my program. I tried sending a file object to stdout but it seemed
> to just disappear. Also, when I try to run fluidsynth with the -i switch, (no
> shell), it seems to start up, then immediately exit.
>
> I can get a result by translating my data into a text-to-midi program, then
> piping that to, say, pmidi, which plays via fluidsynth, but that seems very
> roundabout.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Regards,
>
> John O'Hagan
>
>
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