Re: [LAU] Hammersound: no soundfonts ?

Le samedi, 21 février 2009 12:02:25 +0100,
Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi Roberto,

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:38:34AM +0200, Dan Muresan wrote:
> > Despite these shortcomings, I found sf2 and qsynth the only decent
> > alternative. Timidity worked very poorly for me. Fluidsynth doesn't
> > support GUS .pat files, so I couldn't use the freepat project.
>
> Freepats project is currently trying to build soundfonts in sf2 format
> and better quality samples. It is a harder task than expected, as most
> free sf2 files are build from samples extracted from commercial synths
> (korg, yamaha, roland...). For copyright reasons those samples can't
> be bundled on a free (GPL or CC-BY licensed) soundfont, there were
> legal problems in the past, see this article by Walt Gregg:
>
> http://freepats.zenvoid.org/walt/README.htm

"Keep your ears open" - I think I ilke this motto.

What is the HS Collection of sf2 files ?

Cheers.
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