Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 08:07:15 EEST
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:34, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >>I got it. It wasn't the .sf2 file being bad -- it was having an old
> >>version of sfxload hanging around in /usr/local/bin. The new version
> >>downloaded by apt-get sounds fine.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Also, there are much better free (as in beer) soundfonts available than
> > the ones that come with the SBLive. Google for "personal copy
> > soundfont".
>
> Q: why are soundfonts mostly in funny formats (exe? sfArk?), instead
> of compressed *SF2 files (using some common compression program like zip
> or gzip etc.). That's not only on personal copy site but pretty much all
> the site that have soundfonts.
>
Because most people use them on Windows and you need a third party
program to uncompress zip and gzip on that platform.
Lee
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