Subject: [linux-audio-user] GM sound font sets, was Now trying to configure
From: Alejandro Lopez (alex_osiris_AT_hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 12:02:19 EEST
Hi Emiliano, Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note that yesterday I tried your suggestions and was successful
with every thing I tried.
>timidity comes with a set of GUS patches (not really a soundfont but sort
>of): the package is called "freepats" and should be available in demudi.
It is. The default freepats.cfg had a bug at least in my beta Demudi
(percussion pats are not located where stated in the config file) but once
solved it works very nicely.
>These are not very high quality, but at least you should hear something if
>you issue the command "timidity <midifile>".
I used Timidity in various ways yesterday (player, synth, output to ALSA,
output to Jack). I have a couple of comments / issues.
1. The default piano patch (as well as other patches) seem to have a loop
setup. This is not a problem in itself if every note-on has an associated
note-off somewhere (they always have in MIDI files). However, if I open a
piano-roll window in Rosegarden (it's called matrix window) and click on
different notes of the piano on my left, they stay on forever (until the
Timidity can't proccess so many at the same time and starts to go funny).
Any cure for this?
2. I'm afraid that the quality of the patches is not good enough to actually
know what I'm doing (composing-wise). More on this just below in this post.
>timidity can also use soundfonts, check the Dave's doc about it.
>Another option you have is to use qsynth, a GUI for fluidsynth - this works
What can I say? Excellent.
>For GM soundfonts you can look at http://www.personalcopy.com or
>http://www.hammersound.net
Thanks a lot. I have several other links I collected a few months ago when I
was searching for sound fonts, may be of use? The best site ever for sound
fonts suddenly dissapeared a few months ago, it used to be at
http://www.thesoundsite.net Others include:
http://www.samplearena.com/sites.htm
http://www.synthzone.com/soundfont.htm
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3191/
http://hazels.feeservers.com/steve/ditty/
http://www.soundcentral.com/
http://www bananaquartz.com/
Beware I've not checked these lately..
The other thing is, apparently Windows XP uses a soft synth by default.
Since somehow I've been forced to buy a copy of XP Home Editon (it came
preinstalled), I now have both XP and Demudi on the same hard disk. I'll be
looking into using the fonts that Windows may have. At the moment, all I
know is they sound quite good and quite uniform (they work well as a GM
set). I shall investigate wether the waves are in any known sond font format
or not.
Cheers,
Alex
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