[linux-audio-user] Re: An equivalent for Megafont

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Saturday 14 May 2005, Lee Revell  wrote:
> > > > [1] http://www.geocities.com/lstnght2000/
> > > > [2] http://www.geocities.com/lstnght2000/megafont_mutation_src.zip
[...]
> So, are you volunteering to port this to Linux/ALSA?  AFAICT the code is
> "public domain" - the author just abandoned the project in 2001 and
> posted the sources without any license at all.  Presumably you would
> need permission to GPL it.

No, sorry. I don't have an emu10k1/SBLive, and I have very little spare time  
to work in more projects.

And although I've advocated for Pascal, I don't think it is a good idea in 
this case to port this code. This program is based on several libraries  
property of Creative Labs, and shipped with the windows software for his 
SBLive card: SFEDT32.DLL, which allows soundfont edition, and SFMAN32.DLL 
which also manages soundfonts, I guess. I've seen more library references in 
the code:  MYOKENT.DLL and EAPSMAN.DLL among others. Megafont itself seems to 
be a GUI  front-end for the real engines, and a few more. It is a smart 
front-end, though, which implements a handy way to manage soundfonts. Think 
of it as something like QSynth for FluidSynth. 

Regards,
Pedro