| What | '''tsynth''' |
| Where | https://at.magma-soft.at/darcs/tsynth/ |
| Who | [LEG] |
| Description | Tcl/Tk 8.6 GUI frontend to the http://www.fluidsynth.org/%|%FluidSynth%|% MIDI Software Synthesizer  |
| License | Share and use it as you like, but don't blame me. |
| Updated | 06/2019  |

**Screenshot**

[tsynth screenshot]

**From the README**

I want to give my little son a toy-piano - he likes pianos and music
very much - but it should not be some throw away thing.  So I buy a
small, cheap but good USB-MIDI keyboard – which he can reuse once he
is a studio pro – and connect it to a raspberry-pi clone connected via
HDMI to a TV, which gives it sound, a display and is used for viewing
videos too.

To give the keyboard a sound I use the free FluidSynth software
synthesizer which comes with a – free – General MIDI Soundfont — a
collection of about 200 synthesized musical instrument sounds.

In order to create sound I have to start up FluidSynth, then run a
command to "plug" the keyboard in to it – which becomes tedious after
a while and cannot be done by my junior.

So tsynth was given life: a Tcl-script which launches FluidSynth,
connects it to the MIDI keyboard and lets you select instruments via
buttons with musical instrument buttons on it.

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