Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth player

[Josh Green]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 14:26 -0600, Dave Serls wrote:
> I've finally back looking at building a specialized version of fluidsynth.
> I'd like to be able to specify multiple engines each of which processes MIDI 
> input
> from s specified set of channels.  
> One feature of fluidsynth that I don't understand is the 'player'.
> Is this necessary or even used in 'server' mode?  Or only for playing MIDI 
> disk files?
> Or does it represent the output process for each synth engine?
> 
> Thanks for any information.
> 
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> *   Dave Serls                                 Littleton, CO, USA
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>From what I can tell the fluid_player_t is for sequencing a MIDI file.
The fluid_synth_t is the instance of the Synth engine which one can use
to generate the audio output via fluid_synth_write_s16() or
fluid_synth_write_float() functions.  Is your reason for having multiple
synth engines to increase the number of MIDI channels above 16?  I don't
have any experience yet with this, so I don't think I can be of much
help currently.  At some point I would like to do the same with Swami
(or perhaps extend FluidSynth to allow more than 16 channels with 1
synth).  Hope that helps.  Regards,
        Josh Green