Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth changes

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Apr 20, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Josh Green wrote:

> I think the main thing that FluidSynth lacks currently is simply  
> active development.  The project has been barely limping along  
> since I took over the maintainer-ship.  It could really use, new  
> ideas and a well thought out direction.
Yeah, I agree. One pressing need, IMO for the fluidsynth project is a  
thorough revision and update of the fluidsynth developer  
documentation. I would imagine that  a diagrammatic, hierarchical   
view of the routines and data structures would clarify a lot of the  
areas that could be improved in the code base  i.e. working within  
the context of a modular design would certainly simplify things  
immensely. Once this is established, then some profiling could be  
done to optimize the code.
I also agree that adding support for the data streaming of samples  
would certainly improve the sound quality of fluidsynth.
For the not too distant future, adding parallel processing capability  
is another area that needs some work.
Finally, I have tried building other applications using qt4 but this  
seems to break the qt3 apps that I have. So, maybe changing to qmake  
with qt4 should be viewed with caution.
My $0.02
E