[fluid-dev] Same client for Jack audio and MIDI

[josh]

Hello,

I'm currently working on adding support for the Jack audio and MIDI  
drivers to use the same Jack client.  FluidSynth is rather general in  
regards to audio and MIDI drivers though, so its turning out to be  
somewhat of a hack.  Theoretically any number of Jack audio and MIDI  
drivers could be created and used with different synth instances.  The  
Jack servers may even be different.

I'm considering adding another setting, something like  
"midi.jack.audio-sync" or something, which when enabled (perhaps the  
default) means there can only be at most 1 Jack audio and 1 Jack MIDI  
driver, which will both use the same client (ID and server values will  
be taken from the audio settings).

I suppose we could just make the assumption that there wont be  
multiple Jack audio or Jack MIDI clients and call it good.  I could  
see a user perhaps wanting to use separate Jack servers for audio and  
MIDI though.

Any opinions or ideas on this?

Its the last item on my list before 1.1.0 release, except for checking  
if it builds on Visual C in Windows and testing of course.

Josh