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Qsynth

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qsynth is a qt fluid synth front end. It's a midi piano program to make sounds.

root # emerge qsynth fluid-soundfont

sound fonts are located:

start qsynth as root

restart qsynth as root, connect keyboard via qjackctl connect dialogs, and you're ready to play.

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the channels button is where you configure what sound font bank is playing, and on which channel. ie piano channel 1 harpsichord channel 2.

as this is an audio program we wish to enable real time priorities:

root #echo "@audio          -       rtprio          99" >> /etc/security/limits.conf

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 sound fonts are located:
-/usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2
+* /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2
-/usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2
+* /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2
 start qsynth as root
-setup > midi tab > midi driver > alsa_seq
+* setup > midi tab > midi driver > alsa_seq
-setup > audio tab > audio driver > jack
+* setup > audio tab > audio driver > jack
-setup > soundfonts tab > open > load in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2
+* setup > soundfonts tab > open > load in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2
 restart qsynth as root, connect keyboard via qjackctl connect dialogs, and you're ready to play.
-the channels button is where you configure what sound font bank is playing, and on which channel.  ie piano channel 1 harpsichord channel 2.
+{{tip|the channels button is where you configure what sound font bank is playing, and on which channel.  ie piano channel 1 harpsichord channel 2.}}
 as this is an audio program we wish to enable real time priorities:
 <console>###i##echo "@audio          -       rtprio          99" >> /etc/security/limits.conf</console>
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