[Lmuse-user] Soundfont loading

[Luis G. <lui...@gm...>]

Hi!

When some of my projects that use the fluidsynth MESS end up having
some hundred MB worth of soundfonts it seems that you should wait a
substantial amount of time until the sf's are loaded. If you fail to
do so and press the play button too early, some of the fluidsynths
will stop working (likely those which haven't finished loading their
sf's yet, since it happens usually to those that have to load bigger
fonts).

The problem with this is that there are no GUI indicators of when the
synths are ready to work and that trying to use them before will break
them for the rest of the session. I suggest that the GUI gets blocked
displaying some progress indicator until the synths are ready.

Not a big issue if you know that the workaround is to wait some time,
depending on the size of the sf's to be loaded. Can anyone confirm
this behaviour?

muse version is 0.7.2pre1

Also a midi activity indicator would be very welcome to help tracing
this (and other) kind of situations.

Cheers,

Luis