Running fluidsynth as a daemon, and a dumb wine question.

First: I'm trying to get some old windows games running in wine that use midi files. I've installed a soundfont from slackbuilds.com, and confirmed that midi playing works on the slackware side, but I need to know how I can run fluidsynth as a daemon so I can use midi in wine.

Second: a dumb question that is related to this midi issue. WineHQ's midi page listed registry entries that simply don't exist on my system because a midi device is not configured at all. Would rebuilding wine fix this issue without any need to untangle my wine registry? Or is there a more elegant solution to this?