Re: [fluid-dev] Using FluidSynth for spoken word

2014-01-06 Thread Element Green
Hello Dave, Yes a SoundFont would work fine for this purpose. Personally I use Swami on Linux, but I suppose I'm a little biased (I'm the author). Its known to run on OS X and Windows too, with varying amounts of success (mostly success on OS X as far as I know). Its still in development, but i

[fluid-dev] Using FluidSynth for spoken word

2014-01-06 Thread Dave
Hello, This is not really a FluidSynth-specific question, but you all are one of the most knowledgeable music forums (fora?) I've encountered, so I would love to get input on this idea. Here's what I would like to do -- when I press middle C on a midi keyboard, instead of a musical tone I would h

Re: [fluid-dev] ALSA Raw connection (Re: Reading input from a MIDI device)

2014-01-06 Thread Vesa Paatero
Thank you for your help, Aere and David! David wrote: Forget about aconnect, qjackctl etc. If all you want is FluidSynth reading input directly from the keyboard, just specify to use the ALSA raw midi driver type, and the device to read from. And the way to do that on the command line is what I