Future

FluidSynth 2.0

This page is dedicated to ideas for inclusion in the FluidSynth 2.0 development branch. Its a work in progress and some of these may not be included during the development cycle.

Feel free to edit this page, add any new ideas or opinions.

Proposed Features

• Overhaul API to make it more modular and clean (less exposed internals)
• Sample streaming support
• Real synchronous stereo and multi-channel audio (voices guaranteed to start at the same time)
• Improve voice stealing algorithm
• Synthesis verification and test suites. There needs to be an easy way to verify the output and analyze at a sample by sample basis
• Add LV2 support
• Research bad out of tune sounding audio when using Chorus and/or Reverb and fix it.
• OSC support for control of the features in the telnet interface, from scripts or from language environments such as ChucK, SC, PD, CSound, etc.
• RTAudio Output Support
• Add libInstPatch as a dependency, which would add the following features (some of these are still in development):
• Support for other instrument formats (limited DLS and GigaSampler support)
• Virtual bank support (XML files which reference instruments in one or more other instrument files)
• SFZ File and Bank Support
• On demand loading of instruments
• Global "session" modulators for adding or overriding default modulators
• Improve the quality of rendered midi by adding a feature similar to "human playback" of Finale, that adds small variations in the MIDI. Human Playback is trademark, so another name should be used here!

Documentation

Design ideas, proposals and documentation.