Hi Tim, Tim Colgate wrote: > to override the default by modifying /etc/default/fluidsynth but it > doesn't appear that that file gets read at all (I used strace and looked > for open() and openat() calls). It looks like fluidsynth can read config
I guess this file is only parsed if you load fluidsynth as a daemon - or systemd service or whatever this is called today. > Is there a mechanism in Debian for setting a default soundfount? This > could be used by gstreamer too. My suggestion would be to add a default > soundfont to e.g. /etc/alteratives and then modify the hard-coded path in > cmake_admin/DefaultDirs.cmake to use it. According to the man page, you may give the soundfont on the command line. There is even an example in the third paragraph: 'fluidsynth -ni soundfont.sf2 midifile1.mid midifile2.mid' So, this is the "official" way of starting fluidsynth with a specific soundfont. Nevertheless, if /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2 is the hard-coded fallback, we should make sure this file can be found out-of the-box. Adding the packaged soundfonts to a set of alternatives might be a good idea to solve this. - Fabian
