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|Summary=A Qt application to control FluidSynth
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qsynth is a qt fluid synth front end.  It's a midi piano program to make sounds.

<console>###i## emerge qsynth fluid-soundfont</console>

sound fonts are located:
* /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2
* /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2


start qsynth as root
* setup > midi tab > midi driver > alsa_seq
* setup > audio tab > audio driver > jack
* setup > soundfonts tab > open > load in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

restart qsynth as root, connect keyboard via qjackctl connect dialogs, and you're ready to play.

{{tip|the channels button is where you configure what sound font bank is playing, and on which channel.  ie piano channel 1 harpsichord channel 2.}}

as this is an audio program we wish to enable real time priorities:
<console>###i##echo "@audio          -       rtprio          99" >> /etc/security/limits.conf</console>
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