Re: [qsynth-devel] so

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 9:51 am, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> So (as in subject) I take it as an early agreement? That qsynth is
> to be The GUI version of fluidsynth? I like the idea. Very much
> allright.
>
> Should we bring Peter Hanappe et al. along? I guess that will very
> valuable.

I get the impression from the fluid-dev mailing list that Peter=20
Hanappe is a rather busy man!  He doesn't seem to be a great deal in=20
evidence.  One person who does seem to be quite involved is Josh=20
Green, author of Swami, the soundfont editor.  In fact Swami is=20
arguably already a GUI frontend for fluidsynth, although it has a=20
rather different goal from qsynth.

> > yet.  So there's a real possibility that despite the fact your
> > system has Timidity it might not be able to support ALSA
> > sequencer mode and that's a bit of a painful dependency.

I didn't know that.  I haven't had any trouble with it in that respect=20
myself (not like, say, getting fluidsynth to compile with JACK=20
output: something I still haven't succeeded in).

> OTOH, timidity has it's own GUI hasn't it?

Does it?

> There's yet one other thing called like ZynAddSubFX, which sounds
> good too but have a somewhat limiting and rather ideologic licence
> tag ;)

Now that definitely has its own GUI.  There are various others that do=20
too (amsynth, bristol etc), not all of which are necessarily ALSA-seq=20
or JACK compatible.  As I said before, I had been envisioning=20
starting and stopping those from qsynth as well, but if there are=20
tangible benefits to be had from concentrating on fluidsynth then=20
that could be worthwhile too.

To be honest I'm happy with anything so long as it looks nice and is=20
straightforward to use.


Chris