Re: [fluid-dev] macos x questions

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Aug 20, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Fausto Saporito wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> i'm trying to use fluidsynth 1.0.5 under Mac OS X 10.3, but I have a 
> strange error during at the start:
>
> fluidsynth: error: Couldn't find the requested midi driver
> Failed to create the MIDI thread; no MIDI input
> will be available. You can access the synthesizer
> through the console.
> fluidsynth version 1.0.5
> 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.
>
> I don't know which midi driver I have to use. Basically what I want to 
> do is to use a midi player that see the fluidsynth as a software 
> synth, instead to use the internal midi player.

You need to install MidiShare for OS X available from 
<http://www.grame.fr/MidiShare>

You also need to read the REAME-OSX file which gives a detailed account 
of how to install FS on OS X. If you check out the CVS version you will 
be able to get this README-OSX file.

> Another question, I tried to see in the online help but i had no 
> success, how can I assign to all the channels the same soundfont?

Could you supply more details: I am not sure I fully understand your 
question.

Ebrahim

P.S. I will be away for 10 days so if nobody has answered your 
questions by then then I'll try to help.