[04:07] <OvenWerks> It seems we are missing gmsynth which Ardour from ardour org comes with. Gmsynth is like a-fluidsynth with a SF preloaded.
[18:48] <Eickmeyer> OvenWerks: Yeah, I saw that (but stayed out of the conversation). Looks like it's not available in Debian, which is a problem. It would need to be packaged in Debian for the Ardour in Debian to be packaged against it to trickle-down to us.
[18:50] <Eickmeyer> This might be a job for Ross.
[20:20] <OvenWerks> Eickmeyer: There is a problem with it for debian (likely licencing)
[20:25] <Eickmeyer> OvenWerks: I don't see a problem with licensing as I look at Robin's github repo. It's GPLv2, which means all that's in it must be GPLv2-compatible.
[20:26] <OvenWerks> The sound font has it's own licence
[20:26] <OvenWerks> See the readme in the sf directory
[20:28] <Eickmeyer> Yeah, I just looked. That license is compatible with the GPL.
[20:30] <Eickmeyer> It just looks like nobody has bothered to package it.
[20:31]  * Eickmeyer might even ask Robin
[20:34] <Eickmeyer> I mean, it's worth a shot.
[20:46] <Eickmeyer> OvenWerks: I guess if people really need gmsynth they can get the directly-compiled Ardour.
[20:46] <Eickmeyer> At least, until it can get sorted upstream.
[20:46] <OvenWerks> or... backports
[20:47]  * Eickmeyer shudders at the thought of taking-on maintenance of Ardour
[20:47] <OvenWerks> The thing is, it is really only useful to the same person who would find getting it from ardour.org painful
[20:49] <Eickmeyer> Where I'm at with it right now is that we don't directly maintain Ardour. This would be taking that on indefinitely.
[20:49] <OvenWerks> I would even be happy if a-fluidsynth could set to auto load one of our sound fonts
[20:50] <OvenWerks> (or and fs plugin)
[20:51] <OvenWerks> The biggest problem with FS is it doesn't look in the right place for sound fonts by default
[20:53] <OvenWerks>  The calf variant looks in the user's home directory... maybe the ubuntu version should be patched to have it default to where the system Soundfonts are
[20:54] <Eickmeyer> If we take this on, it could be mutually beneficial. Robin wouldn't have to go through Debian since he has direct access to us, and we have direct access to him.
[20:54] <Eickmeyer> We could make things "just work".
[20:54] <Eickmeyer> (tm)
[20:56] <OvenWerks> So far as I know it is basically the same as avldrums
[20:56] <OvenWerks> Just a different font
[20:57] <Eickmeyer> Okay. So, would we have to take on Ardour or would this just be gmsynth?
[20:57] <OvenWerks> just gmsynth
[20:58] <OvenWerks> I don't want to do the kxstudio thing (offer the DL package from ardour.org)
[20:58] <Eickmeyer> Okay. In that case, I'll work on getting it packaged. It'll probably be a week or two, but I might be able to get something dirty (ala lsp-plugins) this weekend.
[20:59] <Eickmeyer> It'd be in Autobuilds.
[20:59] <Eickmeyer> Though, with RC around the corner (we're in Final Freeze right now), things are a little busy. :)
[20:59] <Eickmeyer> Speaking of which, have you tested the latest daily?
[21:00] <OvenWerks> doesn't have to be done right now.
[21:00] <OvenWerks> I haven't really done anything computer for a few weeks
[21:02] <OvenWerks> uptime says: up 51 days
[21:54]  * Eickmeyer slow claps