[linux-audio-user] GM sound font sets, was Now trying to configure

[Alejandro Lopez]

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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