New subject: [Bug 55787] Use PipeWire/PulseAudio for synthing MIDI instead of FluidSynth

14 Oct 2023


      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55787
Bug ID: 55787
           Summary: Use PipeWire/PulseAudio for synthing MIDI instead of
                    FluidSynth
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: dmusic
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: kolan_n@mail.ru
      Distribution: ---
I feel like using software synth can be waste of RAM and CPU cycles when
hardware synth is available. PipeWire/PulseAudio have capabilities to pass MIDI
to either hardware devices or software synth daemons, such as TiMidity++ or
FluidSynth. There are 2 problems with it:
1. One cannot set a soundfont via it, usually a special binaries run as root
like asfxload are needed, and sound font affects all the apps using the device.
We need ways to do it via PipeWire for unprivileged processes. IMHO even
ignoring it is not a big problem: the fonts installed from packages are of
high-enough quality, and sound much better (as instruments, not as beeps) than
the software synth used by Windows OSes.
2. There is no autorouting for MIDI in PipeWire, one has to choose the sink
himself. It could be configurable in winecfg. Also it is highly desireable to
have a pretty standalone shared lib automatically selecting the needed sink.
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[Bug 55787] New: Use PipeWire/PulseAudio for synthing MIDI instead of FluidSynth