[fluid-dev] Non-Realtime midi rendering?

[Dik Takken]

Hello,

I just ditched my Windows/SB-Live MIDI setup and replaced it with Gentoo, 
Rosegarden and FluidSynth. And I must say that I am really impressed by 
the sound quality of Fluidsynth. Using a software synth like FluidSynth 
provides the same output quality and solves a lot of problems of using 
hardware, like being stuck with an unstable OS with bad drivers. :) But it 
also introduces one new problem: CPU speed limitations.

So I was just wondering if there is any way to render midi files without 
requiring the renderer (FluidSynth) to do it in real-time. You see, I own 
a 800 MHz Athlon machine, and it just can't keep up when playing a high 
quality piano soundfont and using the sustain pedal a lot. This isn't a 
disaster, because I can just reduce the quality of the output.

Now I would like to re-render the recorded midi after playing it, using 
really high quality settings. Clearly, my computer can't do that in 
real-time, but I don't need it real-time. I don't care how long it takes 
to render it, as long as it gives me a high quality output file.

Can FluidSynth do this? Are there any front-ends to FluidSynth that can?

Cheers!

Dik