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. > -- ================================================ University of Hawaii, Maui College / Mobile 760.840.8660 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
