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

[Erik Steffl]

Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.

   ???

   pretty much everything else (that I have seen on various windows 
centric download sites or usenet newsgroups or ftp sites etc.) is 
distributed in zip or rar formats, pretty much everybody uses winzip anyway.

   sfArk is third party too, plus it seems like it's not even available 
anymore. and the personal copy guy even offers the program for download 
instead of offering the soundfonts in some 'normal' format.

   seems like a soundfont conspiracy to me.

	erik