PriMus

What works

Everything I've tried, including audio output, opening and editing documents and so on.

What does not

Nothing so far...

Workarounds

What was not tested

MIDI support, printing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

It took me a long time to find this out. This is not wine related but always works if you want to have a midi-synthesizer running in background. 

• First install fluidsynth using your package manager
• Check that a sound font was installed into /usr/share/sounds/sf3/ and chose one for the script below.
• Now, for KDE:
  • Create the ~/.local/share/applications/fluidsynth.desktop with content like

  • [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Version=1.0
    GenericName=Midi Synthesizer
    Name=Fluidsynth
    TryExec=/usr/bin/fluidsynth
    Exec=/usr/bin/fluidsynth --no-shell --server --audio-driver=pulseaudio --midi-driver=alsa_seq --sample-rate 44100 -o synth.cpu-cores=2 /usr/share/sounds/sf3/FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3
    # for debug add --dump remove --no-shell
    # if you need more midi channels, add --midi-channels=
    # for less background CPU use add --chorus 0 --reverb 0
    Categories=Audio;System;
    StartupNotify=false
    X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60
    Terminal=false
    #for debug: true

  • I am no pro in KDE desktop files. And I did not fully test this yet, so experiment a bit with it. You can start it from KDE-Startmenu like any other app.
  • When you are finished add it to System Settings/Startup/Auto Start/Desktop File. It will automaticalls start at login.
• For other Desktops this should work similar...