2 Current development team
7 Former development team
10 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
16 * Samuel Bianchini, Peter Hanappe and Johnathan Lee
21 Many people contributed to FluidSynth, sent suggestions or bug
22 fixes. The project was started by Peter Hanappe who is the main
23 author. Josh Green is the current maintainer. Below you'll find a
24 summary of contributions.
27 * Peter Hanappe. Initiated the project. files: stuck his nose in all
30 * Josh Green is the former maintainer and contributed a lot of code
31 directly or indirectly through the Swami and Smurf code base.
32 The SoundFont loader is completely based on his code. He also wrote
33 the alsa sequencer driver. He made many changes and bug fixes,
34 but above all, he's one of the driving forces behind the synthesizer.
35 He also created the current FluidSynth graphic logo with Blender
36 (the blue waves with FluidSynth letters partially submerged).
38 * Markus Nentwig (re-)designed the resonant filter, the chorus, the
39 LADSPA subsystem, the MIDI router, optimized for SSE, made many
40 changes and bug fixes and got the synthesizer to actually work. Most
41 importantly, he used it on stage to make music.
43 * S. Christian Collins did much testing of FluidSynth in regards to
44 EMU10K1 compatibility and provided many synthesis fixes in that regard.
46 * Stephane Letz from Grame wrote most of the MidiShare driver, all of
47 the PortAudio driver, ported iiwusynth to MacOS X, and sent in many
48 fixes. files: iiwu_midishare.c, iiwu_portaudio.c
50 * Antoine Schmitt added the sequencer support, support for sample
51 loading (RAM Sfont), developed the
52 MacroMedia Director Xtra, and send in many many bug reports. Thanks
53 to Antoine, the synthesizer finds its way to multi-media
54 developers. files: in bindings/director/ and iiwu_seq.{c,h},
55 iiwu_event.{c,h}, iiwu_event_priv.h, iiwu_seqbind.{c,h},
58 * Bob Ham added the code for "bank select" MIDI messages and send code
59 to define the synth's ALSA sequencer client name. files:
60 iiwu_midi.c, iiwu_alsa.c, iiwusynth.c, iiwusynth.h.
62 * Tim Goetze sent many patches and implemented the all_notes_off. He
63 also sent his code for the new ALSA driver. files: iiwu_synth.c,
64 iiwu_chan.c, iiwu_voice.c, iiwu_alsa.c
66 * Norbert Schnell from Ircam's jMax Team wrote most of the jMax/FTS
67 interface in a record time. He also pointed me to the technique of
68 using a lookup table for the interpolation coefficients. file:
69 iiwu_fts.c, iiwu_synth.c
71 * The initial alsa driver was based on the jMax alsa driver by
72 Francois Dechelle and his Real-time Team at Ircam
73 (https://www.ircam.fr/jmax). The jMax code was based upon Ardour's
74 alsa_device.cc by Paul Barton-Davis. file: iiwu_alsa.c
76 * Code was borrowed from the glib library to the smurf files. The goal was
77 to make iiwusynth independent from any library for maximum
80 * David Henningsson added code for fast rendering of MIDI files,
81 rewrote the thread safety for 1.1.2, and fixed many bugs.
83 * The midi device uses code from jMax's alsarawmidi.c file and from
84 Smurf's midi_alsaraw.c by Josh Green. file: iiwu_alsa.c
86 * The reverb algorithm was written by Jezar
87 (https://www.dreampoint.co.uk). His code is public domain. The code
88 was translated to C by Peter Hanappe. file: iiwu_synth.c
90 * The original code for the chorus effect was written by Juergen
91 Mueller and sundry contributors.
93 * Bob Ham added LADCCA support.
95 * Ebrahim Mayat made big efforts for compiling and running FluidSynth
96 on MacOS X. He also wrote the README-OSX file.
98 * Martin Uddén's midi package was used. His files are integrated into
99 the iiwu_midi file. Martin Uddén <nanook@lysator.liu.se> file:
102 * Ken Ellinwood send in a patch to add bank offsets to SoundFonts. An
103 adapted version was integrated in the source code. files:
104 fluid_cmd.c, fluidsynth/synth.h, fluid_synth.c.
106 * Some interpolation algorithms were used that were found in
107 the music-dsp archives (http://www.smartelectronix.com/musicdsp).
108 They were written by Joshua Scholar and others. file: iiwu_synth.c
110 * Macros to {increment,decrement} the 64-bit fixed point phase were
111 borrowed from Mozilla's macros to handle the Long-long type (64-bit
112 signed integer type). Mozilla NSPR library, www.mozilla.org. file:
115 * KO Myung-Hun for OS/2 support with Dart audio driver.
117 * Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote the CoreMIDI driver for MacOSX, the CMake based
118 build system, revised the doxygen documentation, sequencer examples, fixes.
120 * Matt Giuca improved the midi player by letting it load midi files from RAM,
121 and by making it handle EOT events.
123 * Tom Moebert (fluidsynth's maintainer since Jun 2017) cleaned up and refactored
124 fluidsynth's API and revised its documentation, added support for 24 bit sample
125 soundfonts, added support for DLS soundfonts, fixed various bugs, implemented
126 unit tests and CI builds for Windows, Linux, MacOSX and BSD.
128 * Fabian Greffrath added initial support of vorbis-compressed sf3 sound fonts.
130 * Growing list of individuals who contributed bug fixes, corrections and minor features:
131 Nicolas Boulicault for ALSA sequencer midi.portname setting.
136 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
151 Bernat Arlandis i Mañó