diff --git a/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/patches/cross.patch b/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/patches/cross.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 58c4d285a49b6c..00000000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/patches/cross.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/cmake_admin/FindGCEM.cmake
-+++ b/cmake_admin/FindGCEM.cmake
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ This will define the following variables:
- #]=======================================================================]
- 
- # Find the headers and library
--find_path(GCEM_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES "gcem.hpp" PATHS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/gcem/include")
-+find_path(GCEM_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES "gcem.hpp" PATHS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/gcem/include" NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH)
- 
- include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
-
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/template b/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/template
index 3458983a1f102d..dead45493103e6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fluidsynth/template
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 # Template file for 'fluidsynth'
 pkgname=fluidsynth
-version=2.5.4
+version=2.6.2
 revision=1
 _gcem_commit=012ae73c6d0a2cb09ffe86475f5c6fba3926e200
 build_style=cmake
 make_check_target=check
-configure_args="-Denable-sdl3=ON -Denable-ladspa=ON -Denable-portaudio=ON"
+configure_args="-Denable-sdl3=ON -Denable-ladspa=ON -Denable-portaudio=ON
+ -Denable-signalsmith=OFF"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
-makedepends="SDL3-devel glib-devel jack-devel libsndfile-devel pipewire-devel pulseaudio-devel
- libinstpatch-devel readline-devel portaudio-devel ladspa-sdk"
+makedepends="SDL3-devel jack-devel libsndfile-devel pipewire-devel pulseaudio-devel
+ readline-devel portaudio-devel ladspa-sdk"
 short_desc="Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ homepage="https://www.fluidsynth.org/"
 changelog="https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/releases"
 distfiles="https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/archive/v${version}.tar.gz
  https://github.com/kthohr/gcem/archive/${_gcem_commit}.tar.gz"
-checksum="72f5720328fe44e2e5c67813885f0a6b4b004d048bd2eeeb0c0064074ebff530
+checksum="ca376b42a3c1b186a4c8c248931789a455ac94a89b777394969d678010c2f91f
  34ab0ee87a9eb26d3087fa9b49c2572ea8ee03db0c9705b83648301a3a3fc172"
 skip_extraction="${_gcem_commit}.tar.gz"