[fluid-dev] Problem in fluidsynth (Ubuntu 11.10) still in Ubuntu 12.04

[Aere Greenway]

All:

Months ago, I discovered a problem with fluidsynth where voices for new notes would fail to play because (my guess) older notes which had faded to inaudible status were still playing.  

I worked with David Henningson on this problem, and he made a fix for it available (in a PPA).  

This fixed the problem in Ubuntu 11.10, and I assumed it would be fixed in the next release of Ubuntu (12.04).  

Unfortunately, the problem (or a similar, new problem) is in the version of fluidsynth in Ubuntu 12.04.  

I went to test if the 11.10 PPA fix would alleviate the problem, but the PPA fix appears to no longer be available:

W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/diwic/fluidsynth-test/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/diwic/fluidsynth-test/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

So I guess we need to solve this problem yet again.  

The symptom is that the piece plays perfectly for about 4 seconds, then various voices start cutting-out (leaving out notes that obviously should be there).  

I will be happy to supply a demo piece that it fails on (and it will be obvious from the sound of it - even not knowing the piece - that it is failing).  

As I recall, when it got into the state where notes started cutting out, it stayed in that state until Qsynth got restarted, in which case, it would be okay for the first few seconds of the piece, and again go into the 'notes keep cutting out' state.

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Sincerely,
Aere