Re: [fluid-dev] Best way for an app to use fluidsynth?

[Stephen Cameron]

--- Josh Green <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think your best bet is to write an interface to the ALSA sequencer
> interface.  The ALSA sequencer can do inter-program MIDI routing as well
> as use external MIDI gear.  If your program had an ALSA sequencer
> interface, then you could use it with FluidSynth and many other synths
> as well.  If you desire more control over the operation of FluidSynth,
> you could use the socket interface, or even embed it.  Its likely
> though, that the ALSA sequencer would be the easiest method and is
> probably adequate for your purposes.  Best regards,
>       Josh Green

Thanks for the swift reply.  Actually, after I got back to my
"real" computer with all my gear and played around with it for
a couple more hours, I found out I can already do it by using 
snd_virmidi and use aconnect to connect the raw midi ports 
together. 

As described here:
http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/4-sequencers_and_softsynths/quick-toot-midisynth_howto.html

Seems to work fine!

I added some docs for my program to explain this.

(I probably *should* use the alsa sequencer though, raw midi is just so
much easier to understand.)

Thanks again for the swift reply.

-- steve

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