Лет 6 назад запускал, но сейчас напрочь забыл. Имеется ubuntu с pulseaudio.
Допустим,
$ fluidsynth -a pulseaudio -v -i /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2
FluidSynth version 1.1.6
Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Peter Hanappe and others.
Distributed under the LGPL license.
SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is possible.
fluidsynth: prog 0 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 1 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 2 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 3 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 4 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 5 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 6 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 7 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 8 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 9 128 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 10 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 11 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 12 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 13 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 14 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: prog 15 0 0
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: Using PulseAudio driver
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to set thread to high priority
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to set thread to high priority
И вылетает.
То же самое, если запускать от рута, но без варнингов про RAM и приоритет.
С -a alsa то же самое. Через pasuspender пишет
execvp(): Нет такого файла или каталога
С Jack тоже пока ничего не получилось.