I wonder if there are any reasons to run synthfont rather than sfz. Or is it just personal taste? -- Regards, Leonard de Ruijter Playing in the dark
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9:25:04 AM, you wrote: > hi, > when i tryed to use synthfond, i found this article in our mailinglist > archive. I can not find url, but i copyed the text so here it is: > Hi, I wrote some instructions on how to use SynthFont and QWS, though > I'm using it as a VST plug-in now. > Here you have a URL with some instructions on how to configure Midi Yoke > and VSTHost: > http://andrelouis.com/qws/art/art007.htm > On the SynthFont's download page you can get SynthFont as a VST Plug-in. > It works pretty well. > As to using SynthFont with the MIDI Input method, I copy here the > instructions I wrote a while ago (may not be completely up-to-date): > OK, I'll give some detailed descriptions on how to run SynthFont both alone > and with QWS. > First, let's get SynthFont. We can get it from > http://www.synthfont.com/ > then go to downloads, and get SynthFont V1.112, I would recommend as an > executable file. > SynthFont comes with a tiny soundfont, called SYNTHGMS.SF2 which is > installed onto its own directory, and which we can start using. It > implements the whole GM instrument list, but not brilliantly. It can serve > as a starting point though, until we get some additional soundfonts or > patches. > When we run SynthFont it will ask us for a default SoundFont file to use, > for now we can use that one. After that, it will ask us for a midi file to > open. It's a standard windows open file dialogue. > Once we have opened a midi file, we get a lot of stuff on the SynthFont > screen. Fortunately we don't need to bother about most of it. If we just > want to convert the file into wav or other supported format, we need to > click a button which is play to file. To do this with jaws, choose jaws > cursor, jaws to PC, then use page up to go up to the title bar, go down 2 or > three lines, and click the second "play to" button with the slash on the > numeric keypad. We get a save dialogue box to choose the filename and where > we want it to be saved. After we choose this, the program takes a while in > converting the file, we can see the progress on the status bar, right at the > bottom of the screen, which we can read on Jaws with insert+page-down. > It's possible to change the particular instrument a channel uses, and even > use several different soundfonts and samples for the same song. In order to > do this, we must look with the jaws cursor for the track name and click it > with left mouse button. After that, back in pc cursor, we can press f3 to > choose the soundfont and f4 to choose the instrument. We can also use up and > down arrow through navigate the tracks. It's probably possible to get to the > tracks with enough tabbing and control-tabbing, but much slower. > Now, to use SynthFont from QWS during sequencing. > First we need to have MidiYoke installed. I refer here to > http://andrelouis.com/qws/art/art007.htm > where there are instructions to set > up MidiYoke with QWS, including where to download it. > Note for this you don't have to bother with any of the VST part of the > process unless you plan to use VST for your own reasons. > Now, let's run SynthFont. I should say here that SynthFont when it is run > after the first time, presents a dialogue box with some buttons for donating > to the author. Sometimes with Jaws this requires to alt-tab out of the > application and alt-tab back in for us to be able to tab to the right button > and activate it with the space bar. Once this is done, we get asked again > for a midi file, we open anyone we want to. I have a short, one track midi > file for these purposes, when I am intending to use SynthFont as a realtime > synth. > Now, let's go to the track in question as already described above. Once we > are positioned there, we must do shift-tab a few times, until we here > options. I've tried clicking on this button with the jaws cursor and for > some reason that doesn't work for me. Anyway, once the focus is on options, > we press space and bring up the options menu. From there we can configure > several aspects of the functioning of SynthFont, I'll here only go into 2 > important aspects. > First, go to the IO ports tab. Here you should choose the MIDI OUT ports > that SynthFont will listen to. You can choose for instance the first > MidiYoke port, or if you have external instruments, keyboards, etc, you can > choose those as well or in addition, although you can also use QWS as a midi > through box which will send all the data to the MidiYoke. In addition, you > should choose what sound devices to use. In particular, if you have ASIO > drivers you'd probably want to choose those. If not, buffers are important. > Personally I've obtained best results with 3072 samples and 2 buffers. Once > you have chosen your settings, you can test them out by pressing the space > bar when the focus is on "test playback". You should here a clean, > continuous sine wave tone. If the tone sounds choppy, you need to increase > samples or maybe buffer number. In addition to these settings, you should > take a look at least at the Synth Engine tab, where you can configure > several aspects of the synthesizer's functioning, such as the frequency of > vibrato for the modulation wheel and that kind of thing. There is also a > buffer setting here, which controls the level of buffering when playing midi > files outloud directly to the sound card (not to a file). I haven't bothered > much with it, as I don't mind waiting a bit for playback to start (we're > talking of maybe 1-2 seconds here). > After we've set the options correctly, we choose OK, and we're back in the > options button. We can tab back to the track name, which is a good resting > position to be in. After this, in order to activate midi input, we need to > navigate with the jaws cursor to the 3rd or 4th line, and on the right of > the line, click on a button called midi input. Note that while midi input is > active it is not possible to change soundfonts, change instruments, open new > midi files, etc. Midi input can be deactivated at any time by clicking that > button again. Now we just go to QWS, and create a track as usual. We set the > port to Out to MIDI Yoke 1, and we're ready to play. > SoundFonts: > This is very subjective, but of what I have found, the best has been the > General User SoundFont. It is not incredibly huge, only about 30meg. One can > get it from > http://www.schristiancollins.com > going to SoundFonts. I've just > noticed it's a GS, not GM, font. > I also have a set of Gravis Ultrasound patches (.pat) files called eawpats12 > which I have found useful. To be honest, with many of these things, the > legality of the fonts and patches is just not very clear, as very often > people who compile them are not quite sure themselves if they were intended > for anyone's use, if commercial use is permitted, etc. However, for my > personal use, I don't think it is too much of a big deal. If anyone knows of > other useful fonts, I'd be interested. I've read of a font called Crisis > General Midi Soundfont, which is huge and only for non-commercial use, but I > haven't tested it out yet. > Hope this information is useful and clear, questions on anything are > welcome, to the extent of my knowledge, which is not much greater than what > I've written here! :-) > To unsubscribe or change list options, see > http://lists.andrelouis.com > for archived list posts, see > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > list of 1 items > QWS List Qws and snth font. > Paul and Tammy > list of 1 items nesting level 1 > Re: QWS List Qws and snth font. > David Picón Álvarez > list of 1 items nesting level 2 > Re: QWS List [Bulk] Re: Qws and snth font. > Paul and Tammy > list of 1 items nesting level 3 > Re: QWS List [Bulk] Re: Qws and snth font. David Picón Álvarez > list of 1 items nesting level 4 > Re: QWS List [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Qws and snth font. > Paul and Tammy > list end nesting level 4 > list end nesting level 3 > list end nesting level 2 > list end nesting level 1 > list end > list of 1 items > Reply via email to > David Picón Álvarez > list end > Dna 5. 3. 2011 3:16, Alfredo The Writer of music scores wrote / napísal(a): >> The article only explains how to load VAT Snyder, but does not say how >> to use particular things like loading sound fonts. I think that IMO >> the article needs just a little more detail, so they know how things >> work, how you are supposed to put the sound fonts in the directory C:\ >> for I have no idea why it should be done. >> To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com >> >> for archived list posts, see >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > for archived list posts, see > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
