Comment 5 for bug 347307

The command I used to call Fluidsynth was:-
fluidsynth ~/Guitar/Soundfonts/32MbGMStereo.sf2 ~/snooker.mid
which gives severe distortion

also tried :-
fluidsynth -o synth.gain=0.02 ~/Guitar/Soundfonts/32MbGMStereo.sf2 ~/snooker.mid
same distortion, although much lower level output.

Played to file using:-
fluidsynth -i -a file ~/name.raw ~/Guitar/Soundfonts/32MbGMStereo.sf2 ~/snooker.mid

converted to .wav using:- (thanks for info BTW)
sox -b 16 -c 2 -s -r 44100 fluidsynth.raw fluidsynth.wav
The resulting .wav file is lower quality than the .mid replay and it has timing errors, however it does not suffer the
distortion of the direct options.

I first noticed this problem using Fluidsynth as a Tuxguitar plugin sound playback tool, distorted in Intrepid and Jaunty but clean in Hardy.