Re: [Lmuse-user] opening a project that used external softsynths

[Philip N. <pan...@ya...>]

> One other thing, since you are using qsynth I suggest trying the internal 
> fluidsynth instead. They are identical, though with the added benefit that 
> all the settings are stored with the song.

I'd like to comment on that statement. They are not identical. First, I love
the fact that they are in muse and think the approach of making soft synths so
easily accessible is great. But...

- gain settings arent saved. probably a bug, but looking at the code I coudn't
figure out where some of the fluid synth parameters are saved. I can see the
reverb and chorus settings, but not the sound font setting and where you might
save the gain. I'd be happy to fix this if it's not already done.

- I was regularly annoyed by the fact that if I was using ardour to do my audio
recording and mixing, that I had to setup separate outputs and routes for each
soft synth in muse and set levels for each one as well.  I see the wave
functionality of muse as a convienience for simple types of recording, but
don't see it trying to compete with ardour in the long term nor do I think muse
should. Curious what others think. "All in one" vs the "jack enabled system"

- There is no single gui that can appropriately accomodate even a small subset
of synths, so being good at working with external synths is still a really good idea.

Philip - http://blogs.xcskiwinn.org/panmanphil
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