fluidsynth-1.0.9 on Mac OS X.5 (Leopard)
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fluidsynth-1.0.9 can be installed in two ways on your Apple computer:

A. Compilation and installation by hand
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Requirements:
- "XcodeTools.mpkg","DevSDK.pkg", "CoreAudioSDK.pkg" packages (The Leopard Install DVD)

- Fink installation <http://fink.sourceforge.net>

- libgnugetopt and readline from fink: e.g. "fink install libgnugetopt"

- JackOSX.0.81.pkg.zip  <http://www.jackosx.com>

- MIDI Patchbay 1.0.3 <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/index6.html>

1. Run configure && make:

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure && make

2. make install as superuser

B. Compilation and installation of the fink fluidsynth package
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Requirements:

- "XcodeTools.mpkg","DevSDK.pkg", "CoreAudioSDK.pkg" packages (The Leopard Install DVD)

- Fink installation <http://fink.sourceforge.net>

- MIDI Patchbay 1.0.3 <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/index6.html>

In Terminal.app simply type $ fink install fluidsynth

and the fink fluidsynth package automatically installs dependencies like libgnugetopt, readline and jack. 


Running fluidsynth:

In order to run fluidsynth via the jack sound server either launch JackPilot.app if you have installed the JackOSX package or, if you have installed the fink package, start jack from Terminal.app

$ jackd -R -p 512 -d coreaudio -i 2 -o 2

then start fluidsynth

$ fluidsynth -a jack -m coremidi -j (it also possible to run the coreaudio sound driver simply by omitting the "-a jack -j" options)

In order to run another instance of fluidsynth, open another terminal window:

$ fluidsynth -a jack -m coremidi -o audio.jack.id=name_of_instance -p name_of_instance -j

Connect MIDI I/O devices using MIDI Patchbay 

Ebrahim Mayat <emayat@users.sourceforge.net>
8th March 2009


