Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-08 Thread Mark Constable
Josh Green wrote: > ... > I created Swami with the idea of making the possibility of writing > non-gui utilities, web applications, scripts, plugins etc. There are a > number of "dream" projects that I have in mind. > > The one I think I would most like to see come about is multi-peer > collabo

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 02 Jul 2002 21:19:35 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > swami (formerly smurf)? > > I did mean a non-GUI shell command that could be run remotely > and/or via a cronjob. My thoughts are to split up that mega-soundfont > on a web server and somehow allow updates t

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-02 Thread Mark Constable
Takashi Iwai wrote: > swami (formerly smurf)? I did mean a non-GUI shell command that could be run remotely and/or via a cronjob. My thoughts are to split up that mega-soundfont on a web server and somehow allow updates to individual parts via a web interface so that anyone could keep their own

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-02 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 02 Jul 2002 03:59:15 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > > Frank Boehme wrote: > > Mark Constable wrote: > >>I'd love to see some effort put into a "reference soundfont" > >> ... > > Hmm. There was a posting on the muse-ML about a "mega"-soundfont. I > > missed the begin of the thread so I d

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-01 Thread Mark Constable
Frank Boehme wrote: > Mark Constable wrote: >>I'd love to see some effort put into a "reference soundfont" >> ... > 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

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-01 Thread Frank Boehme
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

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-07-01 Thread Frank Boehme
Frank Barknecht wrote: > OTOH PD does support soundfonts through its iiwu~-object as well. I did not know that. Thanks. > If you don't use the softsynths directly in MusE, but instead go > through the ALSA sequencer both timidity and iiwusynth are supported > on par. The only problem might be,

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

2002-06-30 Thread Mark Constable
Frank Boehme wrote: > Comparing these two, I found (at least for me) that timidity with the > famous eawpatches cannot be beaten by iiwusynth, although I tried loads > of different soundfonts. I would agree that throwing any MIDI file at Timidity generally sounds better than any soundfont combo

Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa (Was: A "dumb" MIDI keyboard,...)

2002-06-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, Frank Boehme hat gesagt: // Frank Boehme wrote: > Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > timidity or iiwusysnth are quite good for general purpose Midi, and > > you should be able to use any software synth to play with a midi > > keyboard, i.e. Csound, PD, Spiral Synth Modular, ... > > I have recently

[Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa (Was: A "dumb" MIDI keyboard,...)

2002-06-30 Thread Frank Boehme
Frank Barknecht wrote: > timidity or iiwusysnth are quite good for general purpose Midi, and > you should be able to use any software synth to play with a midi > keyboard, i.e. Csound, PD, Spiral Synth Modular, ... I have recently experimented a lot with software syths and sequencers (I have no