Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Recommendatio wanted
From: Joerg Anders (j.anders_AT_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 09:31:01 EET
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 davidrclark_AT_earthlink.net wrote:
>
> With wavetable synthesis...
... and that's the only thing I'm talking about ...
> I did now finally see 2 or 3 dropped notes with pmidi.
This seems to be a small problem to you, but ...
> The 8mbgmsfx.sf2 soundfont supplied by Creative Labs was worse
> than a 4 MB Steinway piano-only soundfont file. The Steinway soundfont
> VERY RARELY dropped any notes...
... it does not occur as rarely as you might think. Bear
in mind: The ALSA developrs asked for a "good" example. Thus,
I offer a 2-staff example because I euqate "good" and "simple".(?)
The situation dramatically changes if you play a whole
orchestra. I supply about 10 examples with my musical
score editor NoteEdit
(http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html)
It is practiaclly impossible to play these examples without
dropping notes. Especially if the drum or percussion fails
this is very angry. It happens also if I use the FluidR3
font. And - to make this clear - independend of whether
I play with NoteEdit or the exported MIDI files with
any arbitary MIDI player and/or sequencer or whatever
you have in mind, as long as these MIDI player/sequencer
uses the hardware wavetable synthesis.
And more important: It never occurs with AWE64 independend
of the soundfond and/or the MIDI player and/or sequencer.
-- J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja_AT_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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