Re: [fluid-dev] Introductions and interest in FluidSynth

[Bernat Arlandis i Mañó]

Hi. I'll talk a bit about myself, since you might not know much about me.

I live in Valencia, Spain. I'm been interested in computers and music 
for almost 25 years, I'm now 34 years old. I'm working right now as a 
web application programmer, but I've done and continue to do a lot of 
other things in my work or as personal projects using C, Java, PHP, 
Linux and always looking at other technologies. I've been always 
interested in audio and game programming and have looked a lot of code 
although I have never put my hands on any of it seriously.

In my spare time I'm a musician playing sax in a local orchestra. 
Recently, I took some keyboard lessons and bought a MIDI keyboard 
controller tu use it with FluidSynth. Soon I'll be buying an electric 
guitar and I hope to learn to play it a bit too. I listen rock, funky, 
pop, and a bit of everything, although I'm mostly a classical and brass 
band player.

Some years ago when FluidSynth was just starting I took a look at it but 
it wasn't still much usable so I started developing a really simple 
synthesizer just to get a feel of how things worked, nothing more. I 
forgot about it all until I got this keyboard recently.

I won't get into details about my current main involvement with the 
fluidsynth project, it's in the archive list, but it mainly came from 
the inability to improve fluidsynth without having to deal with a lot of 
internal stuff and inevitably breaking the external API. I thought I 
could use my expertise working with OO projects and other staff to 
leverage fluidsynth to another conceptual level, easier to understand 
and to work with, so the 2.x branch started. I explained that it is NOT 
a fork, and it's NOT meant to be.

Although I have to share my time with multiple activities, I became 
enthusiastic about definitely taking an audio open source project 
seriously and feel committed to do something good with it. Besides the 
technical work, I'd like to make new friends that share the computing 
and music hobbies, so relationships are important for me in the sense 
that I get rewarded if there's a good vibe in the team.

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Bernat Arlandis i Mañó