Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] GM sound font sets, was Now trying to configure
From: Clemens Ladisch (clemens_AT_ladisch.de)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 16:44:09 EEST
Alejandro Lopez wrote:
> I'm now reading about Windows' SC-55 implementation,
This isn't a "SC-55 implementation" -- while the samples are a reduced
version of the SC-55's samples, the MIDI implementation is essentially
only at the General MIDI level, and not fully GS compatible.
> ... 8mbgmgs.sf2 ...
> It may be the case that it contains the same samples even,
Creative's soundfonts were created by Emu. It is said that Roland's
sample set is more balanced.
> although I'm kind of guessing it may be a lower quality / more
> compact set, the name looks as it is intended for 8 Mb cards,
> whilst the virtual SC-55 based synth may use a much bigger set I
> guess.
Have a look at the gm.dls file. Size isn't everything. ;-)
Best regards,
Clemens
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