[linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:34, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >>I got it.  It wasn't the .sf2 file being bad -- it was having an old
> >>version of sfxload hanging around in /usr/local/bin.  The new version
> >>downloaded by apt-get sounds fine.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Also, there are much better free (as in beer) soundfonts available than
> > the ones that come with the SBLive.  Google for "personal copy
> > soundfont".
> 
>    Q: why are soundfonts mostly in funny formats (exe? sfArk?), instead 
> of compressed *SF2 files (using some common compression program like zip 
> or gzip etc.). That's not only on personal copy site but pretty much all 
> the site that have soundfonts.
> 

Because most people use them on Windows and you need a third party
program to uncompress zip and gzip on that platform.

Lee