I'd strongly suggest using the source from Purr Data:
It's a simple C external, unlike the footils version which depends on flext. It's also had some bugfixes and new features that Albert Graef recently added.
That's nice, thanks. I was indeed hoping that we could have a simple C external that did not rely on flex! I thought Purr was using the original one.
I also see now this uses a modification of pdlbbuilder? Anyway, that also makes things much easier!
Now, I did try to use and build this, I got the complaint I needed fluidsynth.h, since I'm on a mac, I did "brew install fluidsynth", hit "make" again, and it built it!!!! So excited about this that I am replying to the email before testing it :)
Now, Esteban is also excited here and willing to compile this for Windows and Linux, what's the step for those?
And I assume the external works fine for people who don't have fluidsynth installed like I did with "brew install fluidsynth" right?
Cheers