diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth-dssi/0001-replace-missing-AM_PATH_GTK-by-PKG_CHECK_MODULES.patch b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth-dssi/0001-replace-missing-AM_PATH_GTK-by-PKG_CHECK_MODULES.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69e88896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth-dssi/0001-replace-missing-AM_PATH_GTK-by-PKG_CHECK_MODULES.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From a2e4120ec53f5ca9f2a99eb50644b031cf7f8317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:44:24 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] replace missing AM_PATH_GTK by PKG_CHECK_MODULES
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 9 +--------
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 365957d..c19335c 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -39,14 +39,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(gtk2, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-gtk2], [use GTK+ 2.0 default=yes]),
+             [ if test $withval = "yes"; then try_gtk2=yes ;
+               else try_gtk2=no ; fi ], try_gtk2=yes)
+ with_gtk=no
+-dnl First look for GTK+ 2.x, unless '--without-gtk2' was specified.
+-if test "x${try_gtk2}" = 'xyes'; then
+-    AM_PATH_GTK_2_0(2.0.0, with_gtk='yes (version 2.0)', with_gtk=no)
+-fi
+-dnl  No GTK+ 2.x found, look for GTK+ 1.2 instead
+-if test "x${with_gtk}" = 'xno'; then
+-    AM_PATH_GTK(1.2.0, with_gtk='yes (version 1.2)', AC_MSG_WARN([GUI will not be built because no version of GTK+ was found]))
+-fi
++PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0, with_gtk=yes, with_gtk=no)
+ AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_GUI, test "x${with_gtk}" != 'xno')
+ echo "GTK support: $with_gtk"
+ 
+-- 
+2.5.5
+
diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth-dssi_1.0.0.bb b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth-dssi_1.0.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a847e7ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/fluidsynth/fluidsynth-dssi_1.0.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+SUMMARY = "A wrapper for the FluidSynth, allowing it to function as a DSSI plugin"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://dssi.sourceforge.net/download.html#FluidSynth-DSSI"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig gtk-icon-cache
+
+DEPENDS += " \
+    fluidsynth \
+    gtk+ \
+    dssi \
+    liblo \
+    ladspa-sdk \
+"
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    ${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/project/dssi/${BPN}/${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+    file://0001-replace-missing-AM_PATH_GTK-by-PKG_CHECK_MODULES.patch \
+"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6c9f660f0df4d2aad5076de75b2a0a67"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e734d06d7e6d056a58c611a62e80b7cc6306b810137d9a19e260612e942fe049"
+
+FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${libdir}/dssi \
+"
+
+# we are not linking against dssi - so
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "dssi"