On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 10:26, Stanton Sanderson <stans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Laura, > As I understand it, fluidsynth requires a sound font (easy to find), and > qsynth provides an easy way to use it. I’m using Frescobaldi, and preview > files from the midi window. Garage Band will play MIDI and convert it to a > sharable file. I installed Fluidsynth from MacPorts long ago- haven’t paid > much attention to why it works… > If Qsynth is running when I open Frescobaldi, it just works. Otherwise I > have to go to the preferences and hit the refresh audio button. > > VLC also plays midi files (on my machine(s) at least -Early 2014 MB-air, > newer desktop (don’t recall the model) & a 2024 MacBook Air running Sonoma). > > Sorry I can’t be more specific! - > -Stan > > > On Feb 18, 2025, at 8:49 AM, Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> wrote: > > > > Stan> For what it's worth, I am a Mac user- for many years I have > been using > > Stan> qsynth as a front end for fluidsynth, with sound fonts from > various > > Stan> sources. I’d hate to be without it! > > > > So if I tell my mac user to install fluidsynth, would his browser start > > using it and play the MIDI files? And is installing fluidsynth easy > > enough that he could do it? > > It looks like MidiPipe is still available. I used it all the time when I had a Mac. I would create a SMF player on one side and a DLS Synth on the other (among many other things). http://www.subtlesoft.square7.net/MidiPipe.html Vaughan
