FluidSynth now integrated in JJazzLab 4

[jjazzboss]

Just a message to say thank you (and merry christmas!) to the FluidSynth devs. The brand new JJazzLab 4 release now integrates the Fluidsynth lib, using the new Java 17 Panama preview project. Feedback from users is rather good for now.

[derselbst]

Thanks Jerome, glad to hear! I've just added JJazzLab to our Applications page.

[jjazzboss]

thank you. If you need a screen capture for your showcase, here it is.

[jjazzboss]

I have a question regarding Linux packages (which I'm not familiar with...).

I'd like to give clear instructions to my Linux users, eg you need FluidSynth >= 2.1, but for now I'm confused between the FluidSynth package version and libfluidsynth version, which can be different. How does this work ?

For example, I checked a few distros and thought that libfluidsynth3 was the standard. But I got errors from Debian 11 users who actually use libfluidsynth.2.so, as part of the FluidSynth 2.1.7 package. When JJazzLab checked that version was >= 2.1 via API call fluid_version(), it failed, though user has installed FluidSynth 2.1.7...

[derselbst]

In libfluidsynth3 the 3 indicates the SOVERSION used for ABI / API compatibility. We try to keep the number of ABI breaks low, but last time it was necessary. Hence I recommend you to require fluidsynth >= 2.2.0.

[jjazzboss]

thanks!