[LAU] lmms, qsynth, linuxsampler, others

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2009/10/10 Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb at joshuacorps.org>:
>
> I took a look at fluidsynth's non-gui command line -- arcane is a word that
> comes to mind :-)
>
> I wonder if Ardour does SF2?  Anything else?
>

To play sf2 soundfonts, try fluidsynth.
example usage (uses jack audio server):

fluidsynth -a jack -j -g 2 -m alsa_seq -r 48000 "FluidR3-GM.sf2"

for -r use the sample-rate jackd runs with
-g is the gain (0..5)
the last parameter is the soundfont to use

optional options:  -c 2 -z 512
-c buffer-count
-z buffer-size