Well, as soon as I get rid of the compatibility constraints, I just get ideas. And instead of having messages that match Pd's higher level MIDI input objects ([pgmin], [notein], etc), I could just make this object take the raw MIDI directly from [midiin]! It can't get more plug & play than that! And I could keep the original API I guess, I'll see...

Well, I just renamed the repository, it's at https://github.com/porres/pd-fluid and I'll leave it at that... (as it's all basically done anyway). It's up for grabs or we can get back to it, I dunno... 

I will just start working on my own take of this thing right now, to be named fluidsynth~ and reside (for now) at https://github.com/porres/pd-fluidsynth. As I preannounced at one point earlier, and to the surprise of nobody, I have plans on integrating this into ELSE, where I can also have a somewhat decent keyboard GUI [else/keyboard] and an object that plays MIDI files [else/midi] - so it's all nicely integrated into the package. But of course, you can download the whole package and just rip off just any single object from this library if you don't want all of the almost 400 objects in it... 

cheers