Qsynth - Qt GUI Interface for FluidSynth

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Downloads

Latest release

2007-12-19 - Minor stealth fixes and season greetings.
qsynth-0.3.2.tar.gz

• A new option to start the program minimized when the system tray icon is enabled, is now available from Setup/Misc/Start minimized to system tray.
• Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation, at least on X11 environments: while the main application widget was minimized to the system-tray, closing any other top-level widget was causing the immediate and unexpected application shutdown.
• Minor corrections on the output peak meter scale aesthetics.
• Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed.
• Orphaned MIDI device name no longer mistaken when switching between MIDI drivers on engine setup.
• A bit more of precision is achieved over the output peak meters.
• Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored.
• Simple as it could ever be, the build executive summary report is now given on configure.
• Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location and insert it the search order, so let the qt4 tools take precedence when --with-qt option is given and older qt3 ones coexist and are found located ahead in the PATH.
• The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is now supposed to behave a little better when disabled, layering child windows as naturally as far the window manager dictates.
• Inspired on Andreas Persson patch, while on qjackctl-devel, which made it possible to compile and run with older Qt 4.1, similar arrangements were carried out on qsynth too, without hesitation.
• Main panel spin-boxes gets accelerated when stressed (Qt >= 4.2).

Previous release

2007-07-16 - Shallowed bug-fix release.
qsynth-0.3.1.tar.gz

• Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2) making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably on Windows and Mac OS X (EXPERIMENTAL).
• Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was discarding the very initial default (factory) contents.
• One programming error has been corrected, which was affecting the editable preset combo-boxes usability.
• Soundfont context menu is now available again even when the setup dialog soundfont list is empty.
• About form link is now browseable externally.
• Updated README-OSX (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat again).

Older releases

2007-07-03 - Qt4 migration was complete.
qsynth-0.3.0.tar.gz

• Qt4 migration has commenced and is now complete. Care must be taken with this new configuration file and location: this release starts a new one from scratch and won't reuse any of the previous existing ones, although cut and paste might help if you know what you'll be doing :)
• Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; application desktop entry file is now included in installation; spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant; initial debianization.
• Default font option names were adjusted to "Sans Serif" and "Monospace", wherever available.
• The "keep child windows always on top" option is not set as default anymore, because window focus behavior gets tricky on some desktop environments (eg. Mac OS X, Gnome).
• Autoconf (configure) scripting gets an update.

2007-04-14 - Nitpicking season closed :)
qsynth-0.2.6.tar.gz

• Main panel window now keeps its previous iconic state on system tray, on application restart (thanks to Chris Cannam for hinting this one).
• Minor optimization in peak level meters update rate. Alternate but faster inline lroundf() function implementation is now used.
• Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag, which were causing some sticky size behavior on some window managers.
• Messages and channels window captions can now be set smaller as tool-widgets, in effect when child windows are kept always on top.
• While on the engine setup dialog, the ALSA sequencer client identifier is now also disabled depending on the MIDI input option setting.
• Experimental soundfont loader which prevents RAM image duplication if more than one engine loads the same soundfont file. Server-mode is now supported on multi-engine configurations by auto-increnmenting the shell socket listening port (both patches handed by Dave Searls, thanks).
• Engine name gets through the respective tab title when created. Fixed engine delete button enabling on the main window.
• Changed deprecated copyright attribute to license, on qsynth.spec (RPM).
• Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas).
• GPL address update.

2006-03-05 - Fancy dial knobs and effective bank-offsets.
qsynth-0.2.5.tar.gz

• New dial-knob behavior now follows mouse pointer angular position, almost similar to old QDial, but this time avoiding that nasty and rather abrupt change on first mouse click.
• By simple use of widget subclassing, the value/position of any dial knob can now be reset to its default or original position at any time, by simply pressing the mouse mid-button. These default value positions are just committed to current dial values when switching engines and/or closing the application.
• Optional specification of alternate fluidsynth installation path has been added to configure command arguments (--with-fluidsynth).
• After some source code tweaks, a win32 build is now possible. (instructions will be provided on demand :)
• Bank offset finally gets its due effect, while on the channels and channel preset selection dialogs. Regretfully, the soundfont bank offset feature has been lurking ever since its inception, but now its live and hopefully effective.
• A new fancy widget has arrived, qsynthKnob, with some modifications to replace the actual *ugly* QDial widgets in the main window. This widget is based on a design by Thorsten Wilms, formerly implemented by Chris Cannam in Rosegarden, and finally adapted and brought to Qsynth by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas. Thankyou all.

2005-10-02 - Bug and some other usability fixes.
qsynth-0.2.4.tar.gz

• All widget captions changed to include proper application title prefix.
• Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and generated at configure time.
• Missing icons on channel and soundfont setup context menus are now up; bank/program splitter widget added to channel preset dialog.
• An abrupt segfault on engine restart have been finally fixed; this issue has been quite an annoyance which has been around for ages and was a highly probable showstopper just when restarting an engine due to changes on the setup settings. Not anymore, hopefully.
• New tool buttons were added to the main widget, for adding a new engine and removing the current one, while trying to increase the visibility of multiple fluidsynth engine capability (for new users, at least :)
• Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal to quit() /slot, just to let the -geometry command line argument have some optional effect on X11.
• Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim Mayat, for pointing these out).
• Fixed output disability when messages limit option is turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this one, while on qjackctl).

2005-05-24 - System tray icon and menu option.
qsynth-0.2.3.tar.gz

• New option for system tray icon and menu, which is known to be effective on KDE enabled desktops; support for freedesktop.org's system tray protocol specification has been included so this maybe also effective on Gnome2.
• Setup options for alternate MIDI and Audio devices were introduced.
• Output level meters get smoother and slightly layout optimzed.
• Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where available, as the default handler is usually fatal when a JACK client is zombified abruptly.
• Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line count exceeds in one third the user configured line count maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText format.
• Updated Mac OS X build instructions (README-OSX, by Ebrahim Mayat).

2004-10-08 - Output level peak meters and other fixes.
qsynth-0.2.2.tar.gz

• Minor configure fixes.
• Meanwhile, XPM icon(s) were brainlessly converted to PNG format.
• Engine panel settings are now properly saved on stop/restart.
• Icons were added to the engine tab selector context menu.
• Master gain front panel control gets rescaled and now ranges from 0..200, with midpoint at 100 (unit gain).
• Added Mac OS X build instructions (README-OSX, by Ebrahim Mayat).
• Soundfont bank offset option gets its trial time (EXPERIMENTAL); please note that fluidsynth 1.0.5 is needed to build on this feature, which is being properly detected and only enabled at configure time.
• Output level peak meters are now featured as an option (EXPERIMENTAL), which must be explicitly enabled on setup for those to show up; in addition, overall GUI refresh cycle period has been reduced from 200 to 100 msec.
• Top level sub-windows are now always raised and set with active focus when shown to visibility.

2004-04-30 - Important internal fixes.
qsynth-0.2.1.tar.gz

• Channels window reset when switching engines isn't destructive anymore; also reverb and chorus activation were not being correctly updated; these were quite annoying bugs, now fixed.
• Corrected MIDI/Audio driver settings that were being obliterated from the setup dialog option lists; this was causing the impossibility to choose an appropriate driver on certain systems where "alsa_seq" or "jack" may not be available by default (e.g. MacOSX, thanks to Ebrahim Mayat).
• The dash (-) is now a legal character for preset names.
• Translation support for the default preset name "(default)".
• Delete preset confirmation warning message.
• Messages window pops up whenever a critical error message is issued.

2004-03-21 - Multi-instance comes to town.
qsynth-0.2.0.tar.gz

• Multiple fluidsynth engines can now be maintained, with different settings, MIDI and Audio drivers, and more interestingly distinct soundfont stacks. The main user interface has been minimally improved to accomodate this new paradigm, but whole application internals have been massively rewritten.

2004-02-29 - More work in progress.
qsynth-0.1.3.tar.gz

• Message window line limit is now a configurable option on setup.
• ALSA sequencer client name may now be internally set; not of great use for now, but it opens the ground for future workings.
• JACK multiple output port mode may now be configured on setup.
• Makefile.cvs makes its late entrance on the build toolset.

2004-02-16 - Work in progress.
qsynth-0.1.2.tar.gz

• Messages and Channels pop-up windows are not hinted as dialogs anymore and thus are not centered relative to parent main window which has become a strict Qt dialog widget behaviour (as of Qt 3.3+).
• Soundfont setup dialog changed to open and load multiple files at once.
• New setup option on wether all child windows are kept on top of the main window, or otherwise floating with probable taskbar entries of their own.
• Setup changes that are only effective next time the program is run gets an informational message box shown to the user.

2004-01-22 - Yet more minor bugfixes.
qsynth-0.1.1.tar.gz

• Messages color retouching.
• Popup menus memory leak fixed.

2003-12-29 - Channel preset breakout.
qsynth-0.1.0.tar.gz

• Added channels breakout and program preset view and edit windows, including a simple preset/profile management feature where the complete channel program assignments may be referenced and saved by name.
• Drag and dropped soundfont files are now accepted for immediate load.
• Messages window fallback fix.
• Standard output/error stream capture setup option; handler retouched to be line buffer oriented.

2003-12-12 - Few tiny changes so far.
qsynth-0.0.3.tar.gz

• Single shot timer and restart code path had a graceful rewrite.
• Messages window blankness rendering fix.
• Configure time detection of 'round' library function availability.
• Player drag and drop feature has been prepared, but somehow the internal MIDI player function is still broken.

2003-11-26 - Minor bugfixes.
qsynth-0.0.2.tar.gz

• Gain, Reverb and Chorus front-panel settings are now loosely scaled and properly clipped; this is a first attempt to avoid unstable sound feedback behaviour namely on Reverb.
• MIDI input status led stickyness have been fixed.
• Soundfont open dialog now uses uppercase filter too (*.SF2).
• New configure time argument debugging support (--enable-debug).

2003-11-14 - Initial release.
qsynth-0.0.1.tar.gz

CVS Access

This project's CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instructions:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@qsynth.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qsynth login

When prompted for the password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@qsynth.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qsynth co qsynth

You then need to prepare the configure script on the just created qsynth source directory:

cd qsynth

make -f Makefile.cvs

Hopefully, you'll be now with a proper source tree, ready for build.