| 1 | fluidsynth-1.1.1 on Mac OS X |
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| 4 | fluidsynth-1.1.1 can be installed in two ways on your Apple computer: |
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| 6 | A. Compilation and installation by hand |
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| 7 | --------------------------------------- |
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| 8 | Requirements: |
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| 9 | - "XcodeTools.mpkg","DevSDK.pkg", "CoreAudioSDK.pkg" packages (The Leopard/Snow Leopard Install DVD) |
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| 11 | - Fink installation <http://fink.sourceforge.net> |
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| 13 | - libgnugetopt, readline5, libflac8-dev, libsndfile1-dev and glib2-dev from fink: e.g. "fink install libgnugetopt" |
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| 15 | - MIDI Patchbay 1.0.3 <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/index6.html> |
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| 17 | - Optional: JackOSX.0.83*.pkg.zip <http://www.jackosx.com> |
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| 19 | 1. Run configure && make: |
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| 21 | $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure && make |
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| 23 | 2. make install as superuser |
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| 25 | B. Compilation and installation of the fink fluidsynth package |
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| 26 | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 28 | Note: The fink fluidsynth package is currently at version 1.0.9. The update will be announced after the source tarball for version 1.1.1 becomes officially available on http://fluidsynth.resonance.org. |
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| 31 | Requirements: |
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| 33 | - "XcodeTools.mpkg","DevSDK.pkg", "CoreAudioSDK.pkg" packages (The Leopard/Snow Leopard Install DVD) |
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| 35 | - Fink installation <http://fink.sourceforge.net> |
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| 37 | - MIDI Patchbay 1.0.3 <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/index6.html> |
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| 39 | In Terminal.app simply type $ fink install fluidsynth |
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| 41 | and the fink fluidsynth package automatically installs its dependencies. |
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| 44 | C. Running fluidsynth |
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| 45 | ______________________ |
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| 47 | $ fluidsynth -a SOUND_DRIVER -j -m coremidi where the SOUND_DRIVER is either "jack" or "coreaudio" (in order to run the coreaudio sound driver replace the "-a jack -j" options with "-a coreaudio") |
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| 49 | In order to run another instance of fluidsynth, open another terminal window: |
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| 51 | $ fluidsynth -a SOUND_DRIVER [-j] -m coremidi -p name_of_instance |
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| 53 | Connect MIDI I/O devices using MIDI Patchbay |
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| 55 | Ebrahim Mayat <emayat@users.sourceforge.net> |
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| 56 | 29th November 2009 |
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