[PD] Re: A couple of small fluid~ problems

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Larry Troxler hat gesagt: // Larry Troxler wrote:

> I apologize for not having more time to look in to the following, but thought 
> I'd mention a copule of glitches as a heads up -
> 
> (1) The "post" that a soundfont is loaded actually only happens for the 
> _first_ soundfont loaded. I remember this from a while back, it's a bug in 
> how fluid~ is interpreting a return value from some fluid function - don't 
> remember the details now.

I looked it up now at http://www.fluidsynth.org/api/synth_8h.html#a35

fluid_synth_sfload returns the ID of the loaded SoundFont, or -1 in
case of error.

Quickly guessed, this in around line 159:

		if ( fluid_synth_sfload(synth, filename, 0) == 0)

should be that 

		if ( fluid_synth_sfload(synth, filename, 0) >= 0)

I tested it, it works, and I've put it in the CVS now.

> (2) The following sequence hogs my machine: instantiate fluid~ , load a large 
> soundfont, close the fluid~ patch, instantiate fluid~, load a large 
> soundfont. I checked, and the appropriate fluid API function _is_ being 
> called on deletion. Sure seems as if my soundfont isn't getting back to the 
> free store somehow (it's about 50% of my RAM).

Hm, as you probably saw, I don't do any deleting or unloading besides
calling delete_fluid_synth in the destructor of the external. The
implementation of delete_fluid_synth in libfluidsynth does a lot of
housekeeping then. Does this hangup also appear with the fluidsynth
commandline app? Maybe it's a bug in libfluidsynth? Or maybe I need to
keep track of all loaded soundfonts and call something like the func
"fluid_synth_sfunload (Remove a SoundFont from the stack.)"
accordingly.

Another thing: I briefly considered if it would be useful to include
the internal effects of fluidsynth like reverb or chorus into fluid~.
Until now I think this is better done outside the external, so all
effects are disabled. But maybe there's a need for them, and it
shouldn't be hard to implement.

ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__