I think it would be a good thing to be able to use Fluidsynth on
Mac OS X, and encourage your efforts.
I'm not entirely sure what you are asking about, but there is (on
Mac OS X) a software MIDI interface. It is not turned-on by
default, but it is fairly easy to turn it on.
The details of how you turn it on have changed over the various
releases, but this (below) should be enough for you to try using
it.
Turning-On
(or getting) A MIDI Interface
The
remaining
options require you to either turn-on, or obtain a MIDI
interface.
This section tells you how to do it.
The quickest,
easiest,
and least-expensive way to do this, is to turn-on the “IAC
Driver”
software MIDI interface already on your machine (but
turned-off by
default).
Here's how you
do it:
Click on (or
find and
click-on) Applications...Utilities.
Click on “Audio
MIDI
Setup”.
If the “MIDI
Studio”
window doesn't appear (only the Audio setup window
appears):
-
In the
menu-bar (top of screen), click the “Window” menu, and
select “Show MIDI window” from the menu. When you do
this, the “MIDI Studio” window should appear.
Note: You may
have to
double-click the “IAC Driver” icon.
In the “MIDI
Studio”
window, double-click the “IAC Driver” icon. When you do
this, the
“IAC Driver Properties” window should appear.
In that window,
if the
“Device is online” check-box is clear, click on it to
select it.
In the “Ports”
pane, toward the lower-left, click the “+” button to add
the “IAC
Bus 2” port.
In the menu-bar
(top
of screen), click “Audio MIDI Setup”, and choose “Quit
Audio
MIDI Setup” in the menu that appears.
Alternatively,
you can get an inexpensive USB hardware MIDI interface
for around
$35. This approach is useful if you want to connect to a
non-USB MIDI
device.
For
information on using a MIDI interface to connect the
KeyMusician
Keyboard to a software product like Garage Band, click
on the link
below:
Connecting
To MIDI Software Using a Hardware MIDI Interface
After
connecting your
MIDI interface as shown in the above link, in the
KeyMusician
Keyboard's “F1 Help/Setup” pane, configure its MIDI Output
drop-box to send to your MIDI interface. If you used the
software
MIDI interface, it will be called “Bus 1”, or “IAC Bus 2”.
As for a way of playing music using a typing keyboard, you may be
interested in what we have done in that regard. You can check it
out at: