Quoting David Henningsson <launchpad....@epost.diwic.se>:
j...@resonance.org skrev:
The thread concerning using FluidSynth as an internal sampler, made me
think of something. FluidSynth should really try and auto-configure
itself as far as the audio drivers are concerned (if none are
specified). If one fails, try another, until one works. It should also
have a decent default GM/GS SoundFont which is used by default if
nothing is specified.
But if we did, which one? I just updated the
http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/wiki/SoundFont
page to list two soundfonts we know of, but I think they're both too
large to be included in a standard release, and I doubt that a smaller
one will sound good enough.
Perhaps we could just have FluidSynth look in a standard path. I see
on Ubuntu that the fluid-soundfont-gs and fluid-soundfont-gm installs
FluidR3_GS.sf2 and
FluidR3_GM.sf2 in /usr/share/sounds/sf2. We could add other typical
paths and SoundFont files present in other distros as needed. We'd
probably only want it to fallback to loading a default in the case
where MIDI file playback is requested without a SoundFont, since the
FluidR3_GM.sf2 is pretty big, if for some reason it got loaded when
the user didn't want it to. Perhaps we could add some API too.
A system wide config would also help. This would
allow for FluidSynth to be more automatic, when used by other
applications which just want to play MIDI events, etc. Just a thought.
May need some API additions.
As for API additions, I'll prefer just an "auto" audio driver. The
problem, however, is to detect whether a sound driver is actually
working or not. Or perhaps, we could just check if
new_fluid_audio_driver fails or succeeds.
Sounds good. I think most audio drivers will just fail, if for some
reason they aren't available. The init could happen in a certain
order (better and/or more common audio drivers first).
// David
Josh
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