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

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

Hi all,

Here is my introduction.

I'm from Spain, currently living at Barcelona, the second biggest city of the 
country. I'm 47, earning a live as a programmer/consultant for an IT company, 
seldom working on Linux. At home, Linux is my main development platform and 
also my music home studio. I'm an amateur musician, with some early formal 
training at conservatories. I play wind instruments: flute, recorders, and 
EWI (a MIDIfied electronic wind instrument), but my main interest is MIDI and 
the computer as a musical instrument and tool.

In addition to FluidSynth, I've been a regular contributor to my favorite free 
software projects: Rosegarden, QSynth. Also sent patches occasionally to 
other loved projects in the Linux audio world like ALSA, RtMIDI and Ecasound. 
I'm the maintainer of VMPK (Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard) [1], KMidimon, 
KMetronome and kaseq [2]. Most of these projects are C++ and Qt or KDE based. 
I'm currently using openSuse, and make RPM packages with the help of the 
openSuse build service [3].

My main interest in FluidSynth? Keeping it alive. It is one of the basements 
for a successful Linux DAW, and may be a basic piece for a home desktop OS, 
even beyond Linux. So I would like to help and enhance several areas: 
documentation, portability, compatibility, interoperability, accessibility, 
usability. In one word: quality.

Regards,
Pedro

Links to my projects:
[1] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk

[2] KMetronome, KMidimon and friends
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome

[3] openSuse Build service
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/plcl/