Linux Sound Programming

©  Jan Newmarch 2017

Jan Newmarch, Linux Sound Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2496-0_20

20. FluidSynth

Jan Newmarch¹ 

(1)Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia

FluidSynth is an application for playing MIDI files and a library for MIDI applications.

Resources

Here are some resources :

• FluidSynth home page ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/ )

• FluidSynth download page ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/ )

• FluidSynth 1.1 developer documentation ( http://fluidsynth.sourceforge.net/api/ )

• Sourcearchive.com fluidsynth documentation ( http://fluidsynth.sourcearchive.com/documentation/1.1.5-1/main.html )

Players

fluidsynth is a command-line MIDI player. It runs under ALSA with a command line, like so:

fluidsynth -a alsa -l <soundfont> <files...> ...