Fluidsynth stops working after a while

[msuffidy]

So I have this problem where I am working on a song involving soundfonts using fluidsynth. I keep working on it saving it again going along to a new filename like r2 r3 r4. At some point all the fluidsynths stop outputting. I quit the program, restart the computer. Loading all the prior versions of the song and fluidsynth will be silent. If I delete the fluidsynths and thus lose the patterns, and create another, the new fluidsynth will work again for a while in the same manner (for a while).

I am using Fedora Core 38 with updates.

Also when you go to fluidsynth preferences is does not popup unless you then go to fluidsynth properties, then both appear on the screen. At that point most of the options will result in can not set ...

Thanks. I am sticking to rebuzz for now in windows.

[ensonic]

Hey, thanks for reporting. Sadly this project never got a critical developer base - just to set expectations.

[msuffidy]

Just letting you know it isn't that much of a let down because I do have some other options. Traditionally in Linux I run a Windows 7 vm with the newer Jeskola Buzz, that is maybe related to Aldrin since it looks very similar. I was just looking at a set of DAWs to see what was better/worse in them. I am reviewing Bespoke Synth and managed to get like the only fluidsynth wrapper LV2 to work. Buzztrax seemed to me to be a bit rough in terms of cutting and pasting. Also I was looking for other programs because the last Buzz does not seem to allow you to chose the output rate which is annoying but usually ok. I know buze let you do some of that but a lot was disabled and it crashed randomly.

The Buzz formula is still pretty good, but it could use some improvements in live interactive sound control, ease of editing, and render options.

[coderofsalvation]

@msuffidy you might want to try sunvox as well, it's pretty good these days. I'm using it with fluidsynth (just via cmdline or qsynth) on linux via JACK midi.
After my buzz-ERA I've fiddled a bit with clones (Neil/Aldrin/buzztrax) before getting fed up with plugins breaking my songs over time.
These days its pretty much milkytracker & sunvox for me.