[PD] Re: [PD-announce] fluid~ - GPL'd soundfont external for Pd and Max/MSP

[marius schebella]

if someone compiles windows binaries please let me know. thomas, du???
marius.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>
To: "PD Announce" <pd-announce at iem.kug.ac.at>; "Max/MSP Mailing List"
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Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:15 PM
Subject: [PD-announce] fluid~ - GPL'd soundfont external for Pd and Max/MSP


> Hallo,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the first test version of a cross platform
> external called "fluid~" that provides soundfont synthesis using the
> advanced fluidsynth library.
>
> This is a source-code only release for most systems except Pd on
> Linux, because I only have access to a Linux system with developer
> tools, no Mac, no Windows.
>
> _ ___ whassit?__
>
> fluid~ is an external build around the free fluidsynth soundfont
> synthesizer available on www.fluidsynth.org Soundfonts collect
> digitally sampled instruments. fluid~ converts Pd or (x)Max to a
> fullblown orchestra with just a single external.
>
> To build binaries of fluid, the cross platform external wrapper flext
> is needed as well. flext is freely (GPL) available at
> http://www.parasitaere-kapazitaeten.net/Pd/ext or in the pure-data.cvs
>
> Currently fluid~ is in an early test stage, but in its prior
> incarnation under the name "iiwu~" it has proven to be stable for
> several months.
>
> As I only have and use Pd on Linux, I'd be really thankful, if some
> smart Max-developer would give me a hand (a big hand, actually) in
> providing (x)Max versions of fluid~, and the same goes for a Windows
> version of fluid~ for Pd.
>
> _ ___getting it __
>
> Source and the Pd binary are available either from this URL:
> http://footils.org/pkg/fluid-0.1.tgz
>
> or without the Pd/Linux-binary in source only form at the Pure Data
> cvs on Sourceforge: http://pure-data.sourceforge.net
>
> Instructions for checking out the source are available on this site,
> as well. In short checking out fluid goes like this:
>
> $
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.pure-data.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pure-data
login
> [no password]
> $
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.pure-data.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pure-dat
a co externals/footils/fluid
>
> _ __the thankyous __
>
> Credits, thanks and props go out to Peter Hanappe, the primary author
> of fluid, and to Larry Troxler, author of the older iiwu~ external, on
> which much of this is based, and of course to the "flext-ernal master"
> Thomas Grill.
>
> ciao
> --
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
>
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