[fluid-dev] Starting Fluidsynth by script

[Edenyard]

        Please could someone help me out of this hole!

	When I want to run Fluid synth, I open an Xterm and type 'fluidsynth 
</path/to/soundfont>' and off it goes, showing its shell prompt. Then I 
open another Xterm and run the programme that feeds MIDI data to 
Fluidsynth. So far, so good.

	What I really would like to do is to have one script file that I run 
that firstly runs Fluidsynth and then runs the other MIDI-generating 
programme once Fluidsynth is up and running.

	So far, I've tried the '-i' switch for Fluid but that doesn't seem to 
have the desired effect. When I run that, I get one line output on the 
Xterm saying "** Using format s16, rw, interleaved" but there is no sign 
of Fluidsynth running and ALSA Patch Bay shows no input to Fluid. 
Please, what am I doing wrong?

        Cheers,

                Gerald.