Fluidsynth and Timidity++ both not working on Linux

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Re: Fluidsynth and Timidity++ both not working on Linux

by _mental_ » Sat Aug 17, 2019 11:30 pm

Switch to any other MIDI device, and GZDoom will no longer try to load FluidSynth library.

Re: Fluidsynth and Timidity++ both not working on Linux

by axredneck » Sat Aug 17, 2019 3:47 pm

How can i compile GZDoom without Fluidsynth?
Arch Linux doesn't have Fluidsynth 1.x even in AUR, and GZDoom complains about missing libfluidsynth.so.1 for me.

Re: Fluidsynth and Timidity++ both not working on Linux

by kaleb. » Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:30 am

Yep, I compiled the last version of Fluidsynth 1 and replaced all other Fluidsynth files on my computer and it's working nice and dandy now, thanks Graf 👍

Re: Fluidsynth and Timidity++ both not working on Linux

by Graf Zahl » Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:21 am

FluidSynth: It looks like you got version 2 installed. As of right now, GZDoom requires version 1.
Timidity++: GZDoom does not use the system-provided installation - it contains a stripped down version of Timidity++ tailored to its own MIDI sequencer. You need to set it up so that the sound font can be found by GZDoom, for specfics wait for someone with better Linux knowledge to give more info.

Fluidsynth and Timidity++ both not working on Linux

by kaleb. » Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:53 am

Using the latest GZDoom 4.1.3 I cannot get either Fluidsynth nor Timidity++ working despite both being installed.

Trying to use Fluidsynth displays this error:
Could not load libfluidsynth.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Trying to use Timidity++ just says:
Unable to create Timidity++ MIDI device. Falling back to Fluidsynth
I'm using Solus Linux and I'm really at a loss here. I really don't wanna use OPL....

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