Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal for a new feature: lazy-loading of SoundFonts

2018-04-05 Thread Marcus Weseloh
Hi all, thank you very much for your feedback! Good to know that there is interest for this feature outside of my particular use-case. I've decided to go the route Tom suggested: concentrating on the samples first and leaving the "structural" information loading unchanged for now. That will bring

Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal for a new feature: lazy-loading of SoundFonts

2018-04-05 Thread Ceresa Jean-Jacques
Hello, Just wanted to add a positive thought.   Soundfont editor developper could benefit of this "memory economic" feature as this kind of application needs often to avoid memory wasting.   A part theses many others (off line) applications that must care with memory usage, the one that Marc

Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal for a new feature: lazy-loading of SoundFonts

2018-04-05 Thread Kjetil Matheussen
> > I would really like to get your thoughts on this. Do you think it's a > feature that other Fluidsynth users could benefit from? > Great work! Yes, this would be something the Radium music editor would benefit from. Radium uses libfluidsynth a as softsynth and not as a MIDI player. This feature

Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal for a new feature: lazy-loading of SoundFonts

2018-04-05 Thread Reinhold Hoffmann
Thanks for the proposal. Let me add my two cents. Memory usage is not only an issue on embedded systems but also for operating systems like Windows. People simply load soundfonts no matter how big they are. The Musyng Kite old soundfont is a very good example. In these days soundfonts of up to the

Re: [fluid-dev] Query regarding FluidSynth

2018-04-05 Thread Swapnil Gupta
Tom, Thanks a lot for that :). I want to use this in my android app using JNI/NDK. Do you know of any definitive guide that helps me integrate fluidsynth with android. I have come across a github project https://github.com/VolcanoMobile/fluidsynth-android and it seems that I can use this in my and