======FluidSynth======
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FluidSynth is a real-time MIDI synthesizer, for use directly in CLI and as a background process and resource for other applications, including GUI wrappers.  It generates its tones using SF2 soundfonts, and is based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.
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Features:
    * Produces audio signals from MIDI streams
    * SoundFont 2 support 
    * Realtime effect modulation using SoundFont 2.01 modulators 
    * Built in command line shell 
    * Playback of MIDI files 
    * Cross platform support (Linux, Mac OSX and Windows to name a few) 
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Many different projects and environments use FluidSynth to deliver audio output from MIDI.  Desktop environments can be configured thus, for sound cards with no built-in MIDI capability.  [[apps:all:qsynth|Qsynth]] and [[apps:all:fluidsynth-dssi]] both provide GUIs, and there are others.

{{tag>alsa_seq jack_midi Softsynths_And_Samplers LASH LADSPA JACK soundfonts_and_related}}
~~META:title=FluidSynth~~
~~META:desc=MIDI synthesizer using SF2 soundfonts. Uses JACK and/or ALSA directly ~~
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~~META:link=http://www.fluidsynth.org/~~
~~META:author=Peter Hanappe etc.~~
~~META:download=http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/files/~~
~~META:version=1.1.6~~
~~META:releasedate=2014-06-07~~