On Saturday, January 20, 2024 20:51 CET, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> qsynth doesn't seem to be happy. I tried @rsadowskis version from August last year, but also updated to 0.9.12.
> 
> 20:40:55.637 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine terminated.
> 20:40:58.001 Qsynth1: Creating synthesizer engine...
> 20:40:58.004 Qsynth1: Loading soundfont: "/usr/local/share/generaluser-gs/GeneralUser_GS.sf2" (bank offset 0)...
> 20:40:58.193 Qsynth1: Loading soundfont: "/home/sebastia/mucke/downloads/_MIDI/arachno/Arachno SoundFont - Version 1.0.sf2" (bank offset 1)...
> 20:40:58.794 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (file)...
> 20:40:58.795 Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (file). Cannot continue without it.
> fluidsynth: error: Unknown string setting 'midi.sndio.device'
> fluidsynth: error: Unknown string setting 'audio.jack.id'
> fluidsynth: error: Unknown integer parameter 'audio.jack.autoconnect'
> fluidsynth: error: Unknown integer parameter 'audio.jack.multi'
> 
> 
> also, in the past, the audio driver was "sndio", now fluidsynth only has "file" and "sdl2" available.
> 


FluidSynth -h output of old version:

 -a, --audio-driver=[label]
    The name of the audio driver to use.
    Valid values: file, sndio
...
 -m, --midi-driver=[label]
    The name of the midi driver to use.
    Valid values: sndio
...

New FluidSynth version:
 -a, --audio-driver=[label]
    The name of the audio driver to use.
    Valid values: file, sdl2
...
 -m, --midi-driver=[label]
    The name of the midi driver to use.
    Valid values:
...

Sebastian



> 
> 
> On Saturday, January 20, 2024 17:36 CET, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, January 20, 2024 10:37 CET, Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 10:55:59PM +0100, Solène Rapenne wrote:
> > > > Le mercredi 17 janvier 2024 à 12:01 -0500, Thomas Frohwein a écrit :
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Following up on [1], I adjusted the fluidsynth diff to the latest
> > > > > version 2.3.4. Got interested in this when revisiting simutrans [2]
> > > > > which looks for fluidsynth>=2.1. I tested fluidsynth with shockolate
> > > > > and generaluser-gs-soundfont which works as previously. I assume from
> > > > > looking at the prior discussion that updating fluidsynth would require
> > > > > updating qsynth (see [3]).
> > > > > 
> > > > > One (minor?) issue is that the test binaries aren't built and so `make
> > > > > test` doesn't show any useful results. I looked a little through the
> > > > > cmake files and couldn't spot the problem, but that could probably be
> > > > > revisited later...?
> > > > > 
> > > > > ok to catch up our fluidsynth port?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I don't have much opinion about the diff, but the ports using
> > > > audio/fluidsynth all build well with it
> > > 
> > > Double checked. OK to update fluidsynth!
> > > 
> > 
> > Only stumbled upon this threat right now. I'll see to get qsynth updated as well.
> > 
> > Sebastian
> >
>