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 fluid~ - soundfont external for Pd and Max/MSP
 orchestra in a box  by fbar at footils.org 

I'm pleased to announce 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
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

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-data 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.