Re: [fluid-dev] Starting Fluidsynth by script

[Peter Hanappe]

Edenyard wrote:
>     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?

You're not doing anything wrong. FluidSynth doesn't really have a
daemon mode. The closest thing to running the synth as a daemon
is to enable the TCP server interface with the -s option and
disactivating the shell interface as you did:

fluidsynth -s -i sf2/VintageDreamsWaves-v2.sf2 > /tmp/fluid.log 2>&1 &

You'll have the kill the synth to stop it. I've put "add daemon mode"
on the TODO list.

Cheers,
Peter



>     Cheers,
>
>         Gerald.
>
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