New Features
- Add automatic Gain Control / Output Limiter on final rendering stage, refer to related FluidSettings (#1302, thanks to @neoharp-dev)
- The
synthgained support for signed 32-bit & 24-bit linear PCM, and WASAPI is the first audio driver being able to use 24-bit audio (#1737, thanks to @jimhen3ry) - Add support for MIDI RPN 5 - Modulation Depth Range (#1355)
- Add new reverb engines to fix flaws of fluidsynth's previous FDN reverb, refer to wiki for an overview (#1760)
- Implement GM2 bank select mode (#1323, thanks to @Guflly)
Musically Breaking Changes
- Fix a bug introduced 17 years ago in 1.1.0 that caused sample fine-tune to be applied incorrectly for some Soundfont instruments (#1773)
- Implement MIDI RP-020 to fix MIDI files that use MTS being played back incorrectly (#102, thanks to @mawe42)
- Fluidsynth's default reverb engine was changed to Dattorro - a plate-style reverbator (#1760)
- Fluidsynth now uses a higher order sinc interpolation, the previous 7th order sinc was dropped due to quality issues (#1483)
Other changes
- Make the Pipewire driver more resilient against xruns (#1813, thanks to @rsp4jack)
- Fluidsynth's Wiki was migrated to Zensical and its markdown source is now hosted in this repository (#1777, thanks to @spessasus)
- Fluidsynth's API documentation is now hosted alongside the wiki (#1792)
- Fluidsynth now exits with an error whenever it is unable to load Soundfonts passed as command line argument (#1807)
- Remove GLib and libInstPatch (#1799)
Contributors
mawe42, rsp4jack, and 4 other contributors