Hello FluidSynth list, As I mentioned in a previous email, it seems like a good idea to introduce ourselves a little and describe our interests in FluidSynth. The project has been pretty dormant for some time now until recently, so many of the recent personalities on the list are new. It would be nice to add some more personality to the names and get a better idea of how we can work as a team. Its somewhat of a new concept to me, so I hope you all will bear with me on it ;)
I'll start things off. No need to follow my example particularly, just describe as much or little as you feel comfortable with. A little about who I am.. I currently live in a small town called Nevada City in California (less than 20,000 or so inhabitants). I'll be turning 31 in a few days. I'm an embedded systems programmer consultant and primarily work with Linux, which is great. I'm living with some family and friends on a 60 acre ranch. I'm rather heavily into the Gothic scene and various types of electronic music, like to go to Gothic clubs and DJ sometimes for a local community radio station (http://resonance.org/electrolysis). I lived in Germany for a year and travel there when I can for music festivals or the Linux Audio Conference. I've been working for a number of years on various free software projects (Swami, libInstPatch, PatchesDB, FluidSynth, Refdbg) and hope to be able to put them to good use as well as see what uses other people make of them. My history with FluidSynth.. I was contacted by Peter Hanappe early on in the development of his IIWU Synth (If I Were U). He borrowed some SoundFont loading code from my project Smurf SoundFont Editor (precursor to Swami). Some communications began about switching from using hardware SoundBlaster synthesis to using his software synthesizer. I met him in Paris and we spoke a little about creating some interface for use in Smurf. At one point it became evident that IIWUSynth was not a very good name and so we had a brainstorm of names. He ended up choosing FluidSynth which was one of a group of ideas I threw his way. Most of the development of FluidSynth was done by Peter Hanappe and Markus Nentwig (whom I also met in person, in Germany). I contributed from time to time, but minimally. These past years I have been the official maintainer of FluidSynth, but have had far too little time for the project. It seems I've been able to keep it barely alive though. My current interest in FluidSynth.. ..is in regards to Swami. Swami aims to be THE SoundFont editor for Linux, Windows and Mac. Unfortunately development has also been slow going, so it has not yet achieved its original goal. The future of Swami depends on FluidSynth though and so I am interested in seeing new features, such as 24 bit sample support (Swami/libInstPatch supports editing 24 bit SoundFont files already), sample streaming, better MIDI to audio rendering and perhaps a new custom instrument format at some point. I would like to step away from some of the tasks of being the FluidSynth maintainer and am open to the idea of passing on the official "maintainer" title to someone more appropriate for the task. I would like to focus more on adding some of the features I mentioned and working on Swami. If I can get libInstPatch in order (a library for manipulating instrument formats, such as SoundFont and DLS files) it would be nice to look into using it as the basis of FluidSynth's instrument loading and voice rendering and potentially support for other instrument formats too. I'm really looking forward to working with others on FluidSynth. A one man team, just isn't a team ;) Cheers. Josh My project links: Swami: http://swami.resonance.org Resonance Instrument Database: http://sounds.resonance.org _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
