[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9920: BSynth upgrade
- From: "Pete" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:25:00 -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 Pete):
[Now you know why I was peeved at some of the PM decisions made (:-/)]
I'm afraid also I got severely unmotivated by all the (IMO) unneccesary
makework that people seemed to want me to do to get the soundfont package
available. I got as far as making a usable hpkg for the font, though,
which for now I've made available for download at
http://goodeveca.net/haiku/timgmsoundfont-2011_12_11-5-any.hpkg
The scheme I adopted there, which I think is right for the current
organization, is to add a /boot/system/settings/synth directory that
contains a link 'system.sf2' to the user's desired system default
soundfont. (The package installs the TimGM soundfont in
/boot/system/data/synth, and points the user link to that. It also
continues to link the old big_synth.sy, so that older libraries will still
work.)
B_SYNTH_DIRECTORY would revert to /boot/system/data/synth for now, but it
seems to me a rather useless definition anyway, and should be deprecated.
'big_synth.sy' should definitely be deprecated, but should remain as a
link for the moment.
My original search chain can probably be drastically simplified. In fact
it may ''only'' really need to look at
/boot/system/settings/synth/system.sf2. Eventually (as others have
suggested too) I think there should be a Preferences setting -- probably
in Media -- to directly specify an arbitrary soundfont. This perhaps
could just set system.sf2, so the synth wouldn't need any further changes.
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