[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9920: BSynth upgrade
- From: "jackburton" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:43:44 -0000
#9920: BSynth upgrade
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Reporter: Pete | Owner: korli
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Midi Kit | Version: R1/alpha4.1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jackburton):
Replying to [comment:34 pulkomandy]:
> I don't see any difference between sound-fonts and truetype fonts (hence
the name ;)) and I think they should work the same way. We have some fonts
packaged in our repos because it is a convenient way to install them, and
because some other apps may depend on them. But, there should also be
support for non-packaged fonts in /boot/system/non-packaged/data.
>
I agree with you.
(about the default soundfont and the need for legacy apps to find
soundfonts)
There is already such mechanism in place, since BeOS. BSoftSynth will load
a "Default" soundfont on creation, already.
The way the default soundfont is selected is an implementation detail.
Currently, we inherited from BeOS the need to create a symlink called
big_synth.sy. What I have in mind is this:
Like fonts, or any other kind of data, there will be four places where
soundfonts could be placed:
/boot/system/data/synth
/boot/system/non-packaged/data/synth
/home/config/data/synth
/home/config/non-packaged/data/synth
The midi preflet (or the view in the media preflet) which I already
started writing will present a list of the soundfonts found in those
directories, plus (if needed, I don't have a strong opinion on this, but I
guess it could be handy) an "Import Soundfont" button, to be able to
choose a soundfont from any location, which will be then copied into
/home/config/non-packaged/data/synth.
The user could then choose the preferred soundfont, and the preflet will
write a setting file into /home/config/settings.
BSoftSynth will parse this setting file and load the user selected font.
If the file is not present, it will load the system settings file (if
present). Otherwise it will load a "default" system soundfont.
How the "default" system soundfont (the one loaded when there is no
settings" could be determined by a symbolic link in
/boot/system/data/synth. This is what big_synth.sy does now. Since it
doesn't seem to be used anywhere, I'd even rename this to"default.sf2".
This link would be created by the soundfont packages. The last installed
soundfont could owerwrite the default preference, or could leave it
untouched, I don't know.
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