On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:27 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:03 -0500, LinuxMedia wrote:
How can I keep my MIDI from sounding like a cheesy
video game?
I suspect its my card. What card would give me excellent/sample
quality midi or playback?
If you have an emu10k1 based card and are using the hardware
wavetable synth, the single best thing you can do is get a decent
soundfont. The ones that come with the Windows driver all suck.
This is my standard answer to that... hehe... this is the best soundfont
I've heard....
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.
Lee
That's what I'd heard but I just loaded it into a fairly early revision
Platinum. All I've done was check patches 0 and 127, but one can at least
load 128MB worth and use parts of it.