[linux-audio-user] Midi Cards

[John Check]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:31 pm, Mark Constable wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> > I believe the emu10k1's hardware synth is limited to 128MB.  It would be
> > very useful if someone could trim that 141MB down to 128.
>
> I'd really like to rearrange that soundfont and get rid of
> (to me) some crap... and perhaps try to improve some of the
> sounds with better samples... but every time I have tried
> to use smurf over the years it just dies on me.

Smurf is working here. Let's see if we can get a consensus on "crap",
or a least see which way the wind is blowing.

>
> Are there any other tools, especially CLI ones, that could
> pull apart a sf2 soundfont and put it back together ?
>
> A CLI mode sf2compiler would be excellent... then some parts
> of the procedure could be easily batched/automated.
>
> One solution is to simply use LinuxSampler (for decent sounds)
> but the likeyhood of finding free and useful gig files is near
> or less than zero.
>
> --markc