22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
4:53 a.m.
Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:34, Erik Steffl wrote:
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
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".