Anyone have strong opinions on these for playback of MIDI files via their CLI?

I saw that TiMidity++ has received virtually no development since 2004, but well, it does work. FluidSynth seems like it would be more flexible, but I’m not sure how much of that is for use as a library.

Would you recommend switching to FluidSynth just in general?

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    Would qSynth provide the features you need? I use it to play back GuitarPro files with soundfonts.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Hmm, isn’t that just a GUI to configure and run FluidSynth as a server? I imagine, you’d still need some program that reads the MIDI files and sends the notes to the server.

      Well, and presumably that program would need to have the feature of starting playback at a certain measure as well.

      But yeah, TiMidity++ is fine. I was just wondering, if I’m missing out on something by not using FluidSynth.