[fluid-dev] Distorted sound from fluidsynth

[Janne Kivijarvi]

Hi!

All the sound I get from fluidsynth is terribly distorted. Not beyond
recognition, and certainly not overdriven (setting a lower gain doesn't
seem the change much of anything but the volume), but more like what I'd
expect to hear if I'd take a CD and convert it to, say, 8 bits wide at
sr=17013 Hz without antialiasing and without proper (not even linear)
interpolation.

I tried fluidsynth 1.0.2 (compiled on gcc 3.3) and fluidsynth 1.0.1
from the debs in Debian Sarge, both resulted in similar sound.

The TODO list has an entry 'test on AMD processors', I have an AMD
AthlonXP 2400+, could this be the source of the problem?


Oh and another thing, I need to run `aconnect 72:0 128:0` after starting
fluidsynth (otherwise my midi input won't find its way to fluidsynth;
I'm using alsa_seq in fluidsynth), is this normal (I have two sound cards,
the default one doesn't have MIDI in/out)?


Janne

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