QSYNTH(1) General Commands Manual QSYNTH(1)

Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface

qsynth [options] [soundfonts] [midifiles]

This manual page documents briefly the qsynth command.

Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynths but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth.

FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification.

-n, --no-midi-in

Don't create a midi driver to read MIDI input events [default = yes]

-m, --midi-driver=[label]

The name of the midi driver to use [oss, alsa, alsa_seq, ...]

-K, --midi-channels=[num]

The number of midi channels [default = 16]

-a, --audio-driver=[label]

The audio driver [alsa,jack,oss,dsound,...]

-j, --connect-jack-outputs

Attempt to connect the jack outputs to the physical ports

-L, --audio-channels=[num]

The number of stereo audio channels [default = 1]

-G, --audio-groups=[num]

The number of audio groups [default = 1]

-z, --audio-bufsize=[size]

Size of each audio buffer

-c, --audio-bufcount=[count]

Number of audio buffers

-r, --sample-rate=[rate]

Set the sample rate

-R, --reverb[=flag]

Turn the reverb on or off [1|0|yes|no|on|off, default = on]

-C, --chorus[=flag]

Turn the chorus on or off [1|0|yes|no|on|off, default = on]

-g, --gain=[gain]

Set the master gain [0 < gain < 2, default = 1]

-o, --option [name=value]

Define a setting name=value

-s, --server

Create and start server [default = no]

-i, --no-shell

Don't read commands from the shell [ignored]

-d, --dump

Dump midi router events

-V, --verbose

Print out verbose messages about midi events

-h, --help

Show help about command line options

-v, --version

Show version information

Configuration settings are stored in ~/.config/rncbc.org/Qsynth.conf

fluidsynth(1)

Qsynth is written by Rui Nuno Capela, Richard Bown, Chris Cannam, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas.

June 17, 2014