Re: [fluid-dev] ASIO Freature Request

[Bernat Arlandis i Mañó]

Pedro, I won't call it controversy. I just pointed out that I'd rather 
work driven by requests than by wishes of completeness. Graham has given 
a reason good enough to not just update that driver but also give it 
some priority. I like that users get involved in development making 
requests in this way, it's usually better than we developers doing the 
things we like or feel compelled by. :)

Cheers!

ggoode.sa escrigué:
> Oh, sorry - forgot this one point as well...
> If fluidsynth has ASIO support and this was available in Miditzer,
> then we could use WineAsio drivers in WINE to connect straight to
> JACK. Currently we can't use the built in fluidsynth that comes with
> Miditzer when running it in WINE (Linux) - hugh latency, but use
> Qsynth externally and re-route the MIDI data.
>
> Thanks!
> Graham
>
> On 1/17/09, ggoode.sa <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Thanks Pedro,
> >
> > I have created an account on the trac but can't login yet... so
> > sending some comments here:
> >
> > The jOrgan and Miditzer virtual pipe organ projects (jOrgan is
> > opensource and free - Java based and runs on Linux, Win32 and Mac,
> > Miditzer is closed source but free and runs on Win32 - or through
> > WINE) both use fluidsynth as sound sources. On the forums for both of
> > these programs there are always complaints about latency issues,
> > particularly as the sample sets get bigger and more complicated. Some
> > have moved to SFZ or Linuxsampler as both of these offer ASIO audio,
> > which allows the latency to be significantly reduced. If adding
> > PortAudio to fluidsynth will allow fluidsynth to use ASIO devices
> > drivers in Win32 then this would greatly simplify the use of
> > fluidsynth with these programs and would get more people using
> > fluidsynth.
> >
> > Thanks for all the work that has already been done to get free
> > non-card based sf2 to normal users like us!
> >
> > Graham Goode
> > Johannesburg, South Africa
> >
> > On 1/17/09, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >     
> > > Graham Goode wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I was wondering if there were any plans to incorporate ASIO as one of
> > > > the audio drivers available for the windows build of Linuxsampler? This
> > > > would solve a lot latency of issues experienced by the virtual pipe
> > > > organ group that is using fluidsynth as one of their sound sources.
> > > > GrahamG
> > > >         
> > > Yes, it is planned to update and enable again PortAudio, which is already
> > > present in the source tree, but currently doesn't compile. PortAudio V19
> > > supports ASIO backend for Windows. There is some controvesy about
> > > supporting
> > > PortAudio here. You may want to add your comments to this ticket:
> > >
> > > http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/ticket/19
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Pedro
> > >
> > >       
>
>
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