Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:11:46AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: Ok, in that case the best chance of clearing this up quickly is still to show that swami is useful for authoring sound fonts and that fluidsynth plays a role in this. Whether or not fluidsynth plays a role there isn't

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Oh, a follow-up comment: I do agree that the analogy with a pdf viewer and a web browser is a perfectly adequate one, but we do have to consider what this analogy means. A PDF viewer and a web browser are IMHO acceptable for main not just because we include free PDFs and html pages in the

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-28 Thread geiger
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote If I am to argue this position to the other members of the Technical Committee, I would like to be able to prove to myself not just that swami can be used to author soundfonts for use with fluidsynth, but that fluidsynth is used by swami *in the

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-27 Thread geiger
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: For my own edification, could you please explain how I would create a sound font in swami? I could only find options to import existing sound fonts. Hi, You can create new soundfonts with file-new within swami. There are also soundfonts at

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:35:35PM +0200, geiger wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: For my own edification, could you please explain how I would create a sound font in swami? I could only find options to import existing sound fonts. You can create new soundfonts with

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:02:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:35:35PM +0200, geiger wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: For my own edification, could you please explain how I would create a sound font in swami? I could only find options to

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Eric, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:32:38AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I hope you're fine, it's been a long time since we met in Barcelona, years ago... Are you still there ? I'm dealing with bug #385665 and your help would be greatly appreciated. Someon is requesting to move

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-26 Thread geiger
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: Eric, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:32:38AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I hope you're fine, it's been a long time since we met in Barcelona, years ago... Are you still there ? I'm dealing with bug #385665 and your help would be greatly

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:05:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Eric, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:32:38AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I hope you're fine, it's been a long time since we met in Barcelona, years ago... Are you still there ? I'm dealing with bug #385665 and your

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Guenter, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:33:34PM +0200, geiger wrote: I have read through the bug-report and I have to admit that I am surprised. Swami is a soundfile editor and therefore it can be used to generate soundfonts, so in Steve's word a cut-and-dried case. For my own edification,

Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)

2006-09-25 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Hi Guenter, I hope you're fine, it's been a long time since we met in Barcelona, years ago... Are you still there ? I'm dealing with bug #385665 and your help would be greatly appreciated. Someon is requesting to move fluidsynth from main/ to contrib/ arguing that 'fluidsynth needs non-free