Mark Constable wrote: > I'd love to see some effort put into a "reference soundfont" so > that we could say ie; "such and such piano instrument 1 sounds > better|brighter|bigger|warmer|whatever than our reference soundfont > instrument". A combination of the best of these two soundfonts and > the best *.pat files from various Timidity patch sets would be a > great start... my smurf/swami skills are, so far, very limited...
Hmm. There was a posting on the muse-ML about a "mega"-soundfont. I missed the begin of the thread so I do not know if that soundfont was supposed to be some sort of reference soundfont. But people kept praising it. It is available from some website in a special compressed format apparently especially designed to compress sf2 files. There is no corresponding decomression utility available under Linux but someone uncompressed the font under M$ and put it on some ftp server. I donwloaded that huge file (140+ Mb !!) and tried to load it into iiwusynth. After a minute of freeze, my X server died (iiwusynth was running suid root). Haven't done any more experiments yet... Frank -- Dr Frank Boehme | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] National University of Ireland, Cork | phone: +353-21-4903163 Dept of Computer Science | fax: +353-21-4903113 Cork, Ireland | ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
