This is fantastic! I remember that conversation two years ago. Thanks for
doing this.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:25 PM, David Henningsson <di...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I just pushed two commits to trunk that enables us to load a default
> soundfont file if none specified, as discussed two years ago [1].
>
> The default soundfont file is a setting ("synth.default-soundfont"), and
> its default can in turn be customised in CMake.
>
> Our upstream default is currently /usr/share/soundfonts/default.**sf2,
> except on Windows where it is C:\soundfonts\default.sf2. I don't mind
> better suggestions (especially for Windows) if you have any.
>
> The current logic is such that the default soundfont will be automatically
> loaded if
> 1) invoked by the fluidsynth executable. Users of the fluidsynth library
> will not be affected, although they could read the setting and load that
> file if they wish.
> 2) there is a midi file specified for playback
> 3) there are no soundfonts specified for loading (or possibly if they
> failed to load)
>
> I hope this would be smart enough to not load the default soundfont if not
> expected to. If a user of the fluidsynth executable wants to make
> absolutely sure the default soundfont is never loaded, (s)he can override
> the setting to "" (empty string).
>
> // David
>
> [1]
> lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/**fluid-dev/2011-09/msg00036.**html<http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2011-09/msg00036.html>
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