Taking Hatari to the Next Level: Emulating MIDI using Fluid Synth and a virtual keyboard

Today were going to choose a software synth, arm ourselves with a sound font (or two) and make beautiful music on an Atari ST.

_Links_

Arachno Sont font Download

_Fluid GM V3 Sound Font_

MidiKeys download

_Chapters_
00:00 - Introduction
01:59 - What is general MIDI
04:40 - Setting Hatari To use Fluid synth
06:40 - Keyboard emulation

_Credits_

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Flute Image by

[TanjoGalbi]

I have a MiST machine that uses an FPGA chip to become either an Amiga or an Atari ST. It has hardware MIDI ports that the Atari core uses. The Amiga one can use them too but needs the drivers in the Amiga system as Amigas did not have MIDI ports by default. The other FPGA offering called the MiSTer happens to have Fluid Synth built in for the MIDI.

Also, I use different software than Fluid Synth for MIDI on my PC. I use CoolSoft's MIDI mapper and Virtual MIDI Synth. I should take a look at Fluid Synth as I thought it was just for Linux systems!

[MissionEdPossible]

Awesome! I tried playing around with Hatari and MIDI, but had some issues - this is some good info!

[eiffe]

This is great! I'd definitely be interested in a video detailing the same process with hardware MIDI controllers. Would it be set up the same way?

[milow-clkt]

It was hard to tell from the audio on the video, but how is the MIDI timing? Last time I attempted this the latency and jitter were so bad to the point it was unusable trying to record into a sequencer.