[Feature Request] Support FluidSynth for MIDI

[ftrebien]

It would be nice to have the ability to play MIDI files using FluidSynth with the open and widely available FluidR3 GM SoundFont, which sounds much better to me than Timidity, despite taking up more disk space.

[bsdf]

i made a proof-of-concept fluidsynth plugin a few years back that could be used as a basis for a production-ready plugin: https://github.com/bsdf/deadbeef-plugin-fmidi

[Kappa971]

i made a proof-of-concept fluidsynth plugin a few years back that could be used as a basis for a production-ready plugin: https://github.com/bsdf/deadbeef-plugin-fmidi

I compiled this for Deadbeef 1.9.5 for Debian 12 64 bit. It seems to work, I just changed the default soundfont:

#define DEFAULT_SOUNDFONT "/usr/share/sounds/sf2/default-GM.sf2"

This is the compiled plugin: fmidi.so.zip

This plugin doesn't seem to like the waveform seekbar plugin.

[Kappa971]

I hope it will be added as an official plugin one day