Re: [fluid-dev] Ubuntu 20.04: Rosegarden - Fluidsynth version mismatch

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 13/07/20 12:59, Tom M. via fluid-dev wrote:
> >   my old, working environment contains a file libfluidsynth.so.1 which appears 
> > to be a link to libfluidsynth.so.1.5.2
>
> So, you need to make sure that your new working environment contains
> the same symlink and lib. Typically, this is done by installing
> libfluidsynth1
>
> My clear recommendation though: Do yourself a favor and get rid of
> fluidsynth 1.x
>
> Unfortunately, fluidsynth-dssi upstream is dormant. But there is a
> fork of fluidsynth-dssi, that has been ported to fluidsynth's new API:
>
> https://github.com/schnitzeltony/fluidsynth-dssi

Or just use 'plain' fluidsynth through the command line (via alsa-midi) 
or a GUI client (e.g. qsynth).
I mostly use rosegarden + fluidsynth (comman dline) that these days. I 
think it also makes Rosegarden projects more 'portable' for the future 
without relying on any plugins.

My two cents.
Lorenzo.