[fluid-dev] No sound from fluidsynth

[Jose Diago]

Hello.

I recently downloaded and compiled Fluidsynth to use it in a project 
involving MidiShare. I'm currently using RedHat 7.3 and ALSA 0.9.2

So the first time I compiled it using ./configure; make; make install, 
that worked just fine. So running fluidsynth for the first time shows 
some info and some warnings:

        $ fluidsynth

        ** Using format s16, rw, interleaved
	fluidsynth: warning: Couldn't set high priority scheduling for the 
audio output
	fluidsynth: warning: Couldn't set high priority scheduling for the 
MIDI input
        fluidsynth version 1.0.1
        Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Peter Hanappe and others.
        FLUID Synth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
        This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
        under certain conditions; see the COPYING file for details.
        SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.

        Type 'help' to get information on the shell commands.

Ok, so it runs with some warnings. Then I tried to test it with a SF 
and a Midi File:

        $ fluidsynth Claudio_Piano.SF2 LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds.mid

	fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is 
possible.
        ** Using format s16, rw, interleaved
	fluidsynth: warning: Couldn't set high priority scheduling for the 
audio output
	fluidsynth: warning: Couldn't set high priority scheduling for the 
MIDI input
        fluidsynth version 1.0.1
        Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Peter Hanappe and others.
        FLUID Synth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
        This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
        under certain conditions; see the COPYING file for details.
        SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.

        Type 'help' to get information on the shell commands.

So it runs with a new warning but I have no sound output at all. Then I 
tried to compile it with '--enable-midishare' to get midishare support, 
but I had to make some changes to fluid_midishare.c to get it to 
compile (missing include, parse error, and some deprecated functions), 
but when I run fluidsynth it doesn't get registered as a MidiShare 
application (in msconnect), so, do I need to run fluidsynth with a 
special option?

Ok, so, am I doing something wrong? am I missing something during 
compilation or execution?

Thanks for reading,
Jose Diago.