Re: [fluid-dev] macos x questions

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Aug 21, 2004, at 3:55 PM, Fausto Saporito wrote:

> just another question, now i am able to run the cvs fluidsynth with 
> midishare and without any error at the startup.
happy to hear that

> I'm quite new to MACOS world, so I tried to use the MIDI interface 
> tool, shipped with MACOS, but i don't know how to configure a midi 
> interface there, and if it's really needed to do that.

Are you running FS using an external MIDI-USB keyboard, a MIDI keyboard 
routed through an MIDI-USB interface or just simply running FS from 
Terminal.app? if you using the second option, you simply have to 
install the OS X driver that is supplied on the CD included with the 
MIDI-USB interface. As for using a keyboard that plugs directly into 
the USB socket, I would imagine that Josh has some experience with 
this.

> Do you know a good midi player for macos x?
You can play MIDI files through FS since FS has its own sequencer. Try 
something like this:

fluidsynth -a coreaudio /path/to/sf2/files/soundfont.sf2 
/path/to/MIDI/files/MidiFile.MID

(you can also play MIDI files using Quicktime and iTunes, if you wish)

I hope this answers your questions.
Ebrahim