Re: [fluid-dev] FluidSynth and the CGM3.01 Soundfont.

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

Hi Chris,

On Tuesday 29 November 2011, Chris wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Firstly, i want to congratulate the fluidsynth team for his good job (sorry
> for my english level, i'm currently learning it. i'm French).
> 
> Then, i want to show you a topic that i've posted on the ScummVM forum a few
> days ago :
> 
>  <http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=11046>
> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=11046
> 
> Simply, i've tried my soundfont, the Crisis general midi 3.01 with scummvm
> (which use your soft engine) and with your software but it doesn't work.
> 
> It seems not possible, due to a memory management problem (see the link for
> more details).
> 
> Have you any information about that?
> 
> May help you?
> 
> Regards.
> 
>  
> 
> Chris Maricourt
 
I don't know your Soundfont. Maybe is this one?
http://www.bismutnetwork.com/10Music/Crisis/Soundfont3.0.php

If so, then I guess that 1.57 Gigabytes is too big for FluidSynth. Currently, 
FluidSynth tries to load all the samples from a Soundfont file into memory, as 
a single block (a single memory allocation). If this memory allocation fails, 
an error with the message "Out of memory" is logged and a failure is returned 
to the caller.

Regards,
Pedro