Re: [fluid-dev] Config files ?

[David Henningsson]

(Sorry, forgot to answer this one)

On 2014-08-26 20:45, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> On 08/26/2014 03:42 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
> > On 2014-08-25 13:49, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> > > I am using fluidsynth as a library in a gstreamer plugin. Therefore it's
> > > me who has to configure the synthfont to use. If we don't want to do
> > > such a specification (of a sf2 path), this could also be inmplemented in
> > > fluidsynth as a utility function. That spares apps to re-implement this.
> >
> > Not sure exactly what you want such a utility function to do? Look for
> > soundfonts in a set of directories?
> >
> > The fluid_settings_getstr("synth.default-soundfont") gives you a
> > filename that you can present to the user as a first soundfont
> > suggestion - that the user should be able to override, of course.

>  From where would fluid_settings_getstr("synth.default-soundfont") get
> that default sf2 if the app does not pass it?

It is set to /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2 by upstream. Distros can 
customise this at build time (e g, Debian derivatives put their 
soundfonts in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/ instead).

> And yes, I'd like to get a *list* of sound fonts.

Currently this is just one file, but we could extend it to be, say, a 
semi-colon separated list of files instead.

// David