[fluid-dev] Re: svn 237 error

[josh]

Hello Ebrahim,

I'm CC'ing the list so others can benefit from the conversation.


Quoting Ebrahim Mayat <address@hidden>:
> Josh, David
>
> SYSEX for me has been extremely useful when recalling my favorite
> patches which had been accidentally erased after doing a system reset
> on my hardware synths.  My question is: what would be the use of a
> sysex feature in FS in addition to recalling tunings ?

Mainly to catch GM/GS/XG On/Off/Reset commands to know how the source  
MIDI material is expecting the synth to behave.  Full GS and XG  
support would be quite a pain and I doubt it will happen (lots of  
quirky synth specific stuff), but we can at least provide some basic  
support.

> How would I go about creating my own tunings in FS ?


Its called the MIDI Tuning Standard.  There are 2 different forms of  
it.  The older one doesn't properly support tuning bank #s.  They  
created a second revision of it to fix that oversight and provide some  
additional things (such as octave tunings).  There are some tools,  
such as Scala, which can be used to generate tunings.  Its a pretty  
complex program.  I was able to export a MIDI file containing a MIDI  
Tuning Standard (MTS) dump, which I successfully loaded with FluidSynth.

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/


> Could anybody point me to a soundfont containing GS and XG banks in
> addition to the GM one ?


I'm not really aware of any XG SoundFont files.  But I know there are  
a few GS ones floating around.  Christian Collins' GeneralUser GS  
seems pretty good to me, from what tests I have done.

You could check the Collection category on the Resonance Instrument  
Database too:
http://sounds.resonance.org/patches.py?Action=browse


> ......The latest bleeding edge gives the following error:
>
> In file included from /sw/include/glib-2.0/glib/gasyncqueue.h:34,
>                  from /sw/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:34,
>                  from fluidsynth_priv.h:25,
>                  from fluid_synth.h:34,
>                  from fluid_synth.c:23:
> /sw/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h: In function ‘g_once_init_enter’:
> /sw/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:344: warning: cast discards
> qualifiers from pointer target type
> In file included from fluid_event_queue.h:24,
>                  from fluid_synth.h:35,
>                  from fluid_synth.c:23:
> fluid_sys.h: In function ‘fluid_atomic_float_set’:
> fluid_sys.h:183: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> fluid_sys.h: In function ‘fluid_atomic_float_get’:
> fluid_sys.h:191: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> fluid_synth.c: In function ‘fluid_synth_set_reverb_on’:
> fluid_synth.c:4273: error: size of array ‘type name’ is negative
> fluid_synth.c: In function ‘fluid_synth_set_chorus_on’:
> fluid_synth.c:4472: error: size of array ‘type name’ is negative
> make[2]: *** [libfluidsynth_la-fluid_synth.lo] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1



I just checked in a change which should fix that.  Could you test it again?


> svn details:
>
> URL: https://resonance.org/svn/fluidsynth/trunk/fluidsynth
> Repository Root: https://resonance.org/svn/fluidsynth
> Repository UUID: 5c4a76b3-ff2d-0410-a8cd-973ec75cb1af
> Revision: 237
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: diwic
> Last Changed Rev: 237
> Last Changed Date: 2009-10-09 14:43:27 -0400 (Fri, 09 Oct 2009)
>
> E


Thanks for trying the latest and reporting this problem!

Josh