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Thanks to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas and Guido Scholz, this Qsynth release is now a reality. Main new features are the new rotating knob style options, first full translations, German and Spanish and last but not least, there's this Windows^TM all-in-one package available (includes FluidSynth port) for your (sick:) pleasure only. Please read below the brilliant notes from Pedro about this breakthrouth release. Yes, before's too late:

Qsynth 0.3.3 (stable) is out!

For the clueless, Qsynth is a Qt GUI frontend application to the excellent FluidSynth soft-synth library implementation for the SoundFont 2 specification.

Available from the usual place:

http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth

There's the change log for this point release:

• Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding font size configuration, a new global user option is now available to the rescue: Options.../Other/Base font size (default is no-op).
• Knobs: graphic styles are now QStyle derived classes, which are assigned to the knobs using QWidget::setStyle(). Three styles are implemented in this way, supporting also the legacy QDial:
  • Our former look, tweaked and ported from Sonic Visualizer.
  • A port of the new look implemented by David Garcia.
  • Another ported widget style, designed by Giuseppe Cigala.
• Spanish translation added.
• Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of the ever warning startup message, unless built in debug moderr; also introducing the very first and complete German translation (patching transaction by Guido Scholz, thanks).
• Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, with user configurable settings in Options/Logging.
• Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and running, with immediate but graceful termination upon startup iif an already running instance is detected, which will see its main widget shown up and all engines started automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).

Notes about the Windows^TM package:

• It is a bundle of FluidSynth 1.0.8 (patched) and Qsynth 0.3.3, compiled in Windows with MinGW 3.4.2 and Qt 4.4.0. The package includes all the required libraries except DirectX-9, which should be installed before. The setup program itself was created with NSIS 2.37
• A patch for Fluidsynth (attached) was needed to allow Qsynth to specify the name of a MIDI port to be opened other than the first one. The patch was sent to the Fluid-dev mailing list, but maybe we could offer it also in the Qsynth web site? Link to the mailing list message.
• Users should not expect the same functionality level in Windows compared to the Linux version. In windows it is not possible to connect the MIDI out from one program to the MIDI input of another application. QSynth/Fluidsynth needs to read MIDI events from a real MIDI device, as a keyboard. For something similar to the ALSA sequencer routing capabilities, you can try MIDIOX/MIDIYoke

Cheers && Enjoy