Re: MIDI player in Frescobaldi wiki page

[Federico Bruni]

Hi Guy

I've updated the wiki page.
Thanks


Il giorno mar 30 gen 2018 alle 19:56, Guy Stalnaker 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Federico,
>
> You wiki document makes no mention of Qsynth. I use it in conjunction 
> with FluidSynth and Frescobaldi on LinuxMint and MacOS (I use 
> CoolSoft Virtual Midi Synth on Windows):
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files/qsynth/0.5.0/
>
> I personally find using Qsynth the best way to manage Fluidsynth. 
> Qsynth allows me to specify easily multiple soundfont files, reorder 
> them, modify Fluidsynth volume output, Reverb adjustment, and Chorus 
> adjustment with its UI. It also allows changes to the base sound 
> engine Fluidsynth uses (ALSA, Pulseaudio, Jack, etc.) from its 
> Settings. And it runs Fluidsynth only when Qsynth is loaded. 
> Fluidsynth's CLI syntax, of course, can do all of this, but with a 
> substantial learning-curve working CLI. I'm normally a CLI guy (long 
> years in IT many of them as a ERP app admin) but sometimes a GUI is 
> better (e.g. Frescobaldi :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Guy
>
> Guy Stalnaker
> address@hidden
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > A quick email, as I have few time.
> >
> > While looking at this bug:
> > https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/463
> >
> > I found the link to this wiki page I wrote almost two years ago:
> > https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/MIDI-playback-on-Linux
> >
> > There are a couple of edits I'd like to do, but I'd like to have 
> > some feedback from you first.
> >
> > 1. Do not use ~/.config/NAME.desktop to start the MIDI synth
> > I would remove that section, as you cannot easily control 
> > applications/services started this way.
> >
> > 2. Suggest only Systemd instead.
> > I don't know why I wrote that systemd timidity service would have 
> > worked only if Pulseaudio was not installed. The link which should 
> > explain it does not work anymore. But anyway I have Pulseaudio 
> > installed and the timidity service is working fine.
> >
> > I would add also an example for fluidsynth.
> >
> > The following works for me:
> >
> > $ systemctl --user cat fluidsynth.service
> > # /home/fede/.config/systemd/user/fluidsynth.service
> > [Unit]
> > Description=Fluidsynth
> > After=sound.target
> >
> > [Service]
> > ExecStart=/usr/bin/fluidsynth -a pulseaudio -m alsa_seq -i -l -s -p 
> > FluidSynth -R 0 -C 0 -c 2 -z 512 -r 48000 
> > /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2
> >
> > [Install]
> > WantedBy=default.target
> >
> >
> >
> >
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