Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth going dormant periodically?

[John Anderson]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 20:51 +0200, John Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 20:27 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > I've noticed an alarming tendency lately for fluidsynth to "go
> > stealth" sometimes.
> > 
> > Basically I'll start up a couple fluidsynth instances, like I've been
> > doing every day for almost a year now. But, once in a while, and
> > increasingly frequently, the instances will NOT show up in JACK, nor
> > will they show up in ALSA, but the processes *are* definitely running!
> 
> I noticed one time that starting qsynth didn't show up new jack
> ports.IIRC, it was when I was changing lots of settings in qsynth, and
> the engine had been restarted, oh about 20 times. But even restarting
> qsynth didn't help.
> 
> I've never noticed it from the command line, but then I haven't
> repeatedly started and stopped it.

I managed to confuse myself thoroughly here. What happened to me was
that in qsynth, when "Options/Output peak level meters" was turned on,
"Setup/Audio/Multiple Jack Outputs" has no effect.

Sorry for the bad info.

bye
John