Re: Qsynth not producing sound when used from within frescobaldi

[Stan Sanderson]

It works fine for me. (Mac OS 10.14, Frescobaldi 3 and qsynth from 
MacPorts.)Have you set preferences in Qsynth ( and selected a sound font)? The 
instructions for the Mac version of Frescobaldi are pretty clear.

Stan

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 4:52 PM, John Helly <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Aloha.
> I reinstalled qsynth (not the macports version, which doesn't seem to
> build) and have it working now by, apparently, spinning the Gain dial.
> J.
> 
>> On 10/17/19 11:15, John Helly wrote:
>> Aloha.
>> 
>> I'm using FB 2.20.0 with Qsynth 0.5.6 with fluidsynth 2.0.5 on OSX 10.14.6
>> 
>> When I try to playback midi from a score within FB using Qsynth, Qsynth
>> shows the midi messages and the green-light blinks on and off
>> appropriately but I get no sound. I've loaded the
>> GeneralUser_GS_v1.471.sf2 soundfont and cannot find out what's wrong.
>> 
>> At one point this did work but the circumstances were odd.  I was
>> similarly struggling to get it to work then, out of nowhere, there was
>> scratchy irregular playback that finally stabilized and worked well. 
>> However, as I feared, when I tried to restart the setup, I was back to
>> the same deal: all looks ok but no sound.  This points to something
>> about the soundfile but I don't know enough to further debug.  Any
>> thoughts or pointers would be welcome.
>> 
>> When I play the same midi file with fluidsynth from the command-line
>> with the same soundfile it works fine and SimpleSynth and VLC work fine
>> so I know the computer audio is ok.
>> 
>> I've tried changing the audio setting from default to speakers but no
>> joy there either.
>> 
>> Mahalo.
>> J.
>> 
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