[fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

[Simon Eigeldinger]

Hi all,

I am new to fluidsynth and i tried it to run it on my raspberry pi computer.
its a small ARM board with a 700 mhz processor and 256 mb ram.

When i tried it it played the file for a few seconds and then it strated 
to kind of grind or hum. sounded like a saw wave tone got quite low but 
went up and down the scale.

here's the output of the console:

$ fluidsynth -a alsa /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 10.mid

FluidSynth version 1.1.5
Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Peter Hanappe and others.
Distributed under the LGPL license.
SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.

fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is 
possible.

Parameter '10.mid' not a SoundFont or MIDI file or error occurred 
identifying it
.
fluidsynth: warning: Requested a period size of 64, got 256 instead
Type 'help' for help topics.

fluidsynth: warning: Failed to set thread to high priority
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to set thread to high priority
>


Anyone knows thats wrong?
I also tried timidity but the annoying thing with it is that you have to 
create a channels configuration file first before you are able to use 
the soundfont.

Any help appreciated.
Greetings,
Simon