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Fluidsynth problem

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#1

Hi all!
I installed the fluidsynth as described, and I am able to get it working using the terminal.
I tried to use it inside OM 7.4, I did the setup as described, but I get errors. It is not as well recognized in the preferences window.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance,

Dimitris

osx10.15.7
om 7.4

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#2

Did you reboot your computer after the installation?

#3

Thank you for your response Karim!

Yes I did.
I did the installation by using macports.
I tried first through Homebrew, but it was always giving me an error that the flac file was not available to download.
I did it with macports and it did the job.
After trying various times to make it work and reading in the forum that homebrew and macports is not a healthy thing to coexist, I uninstalled homebrew through the terminal.

The funny thing is that through terminal fluidsynth works as expected.
I just can not get it recognized by OM. The version of fluidsynth installed is the 2.3.4

I restarted various times my computer.

Any suggestions further?

Many greetings and thank you in advance,

Dimitris

#4

Dear Dimitris,

One thing you can try is the following:

  1. Locate the libfluidsynth.dylib in your macports folder path (it should be somewhere in /usr/local/ … someting I guess

  2. once you located it, COPY it in the folder /Application/OM 7.4/Contents/Frameworks

It could have a name such as Libfluidsynth.2.3.4.dylib or something like that

  1. delete the oldet libfluidsynth.

  2. rename the libfluidsynth-xxx.dylib library into just libfluidsynth.dylib as the former.

  3. relaucnh OM and please do report if the issue still is here.

Best
K

#5

Maybe just an alias of the library into the Frameworks of OM is just sufficient.
I am not sure if this is still possible with the new OS of apple???

#6

Done but bit more complicated!!

  1. Finder → Go to folder… → /opt/local
  2. If hidden files are active on your mac, you have to press command+option+.
  3. folder → var
  4. folder → macports (I installed fluidsynth by using macports. Homebrew was too advanced for my Mac, OSX 10.15.7)
  5. inside macports → software-> fluidsynth
  6. inside fluidsynth folder unzip fluidsynth-2.3.4_0.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 file
  7. inside fluidesynth folder in the unziped new file then → opt → lib → libfluidsynth.3.2.2.dylib
  8. Copy the file
  9. As you suggested, paste/replace inside the folder /Application/OM 7.4/Contents/Frameworks the libfluidsynth.dylib file by the libfluidsynth.3.2.2.dylib new file
  10. rename the libfluidsynth.3.2.2.dylib to libfluidsynth.dylib
  11. restart OM 7.4

and now it works…

Thank you Karim!

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#7

Thank you Dimitris for your feedback.

Best
K