FluidSynth
| FluidSynth | |
|---|---|
| Website: | http://www.fluidsynth.org/ |
| Description: | MIDI synthesizer using SF2 soundfonts. Uses JACK and/or ALSA directly |
| Author: | Peter Hanappe etc. |
| Version: | 1.1.6 |
| Releasedate: | 2014-06-07 |
| Download: | http://sourceforge.net/projects... |
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.
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)
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. Qsynth and FluidSynth-DSSI both provide GUIs, and there are others.