Re: [linux-audio-user] Midi Cards

From: LinuxMedia <linuxmedia4@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 02:03:41 EET

>> How can I keep my MIDI from sounding like a cheesy video game?
>>
>> I suspect its my card. What card would give me excellent/sample
>> quality midi or playback?
>
> If you have an emu10k1 based card and are using the hardware
> wavetable synth, the single best thing you can do is get a decent
> soundfont. The ones that come with the Windows driver all suck.

This is my standard answer to that... hehe... this is the best soundfont
  I've heard....

http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/fluid-unpacked/

It's 141 Megs. I (think) some hardware wavetable synths have limited
capacity. If so use a soft synth like fluidsynth.

Rocco
Received on Thu Mar 3 04:15:07 2005

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