Hi,
Joerg Anders wrote:
  On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Mark Constable wrote:
 Excellent, thanks... any chance of the FluidSynth
string
envelope problem  .... 
 Ok, I got it! At the end of:
  
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/DROP/gap.html
 You'll find 3 files: 
Excellent!
    - strings_hardware.mp3 (67K)
    - strings_timidity.mp3 (121K)
    - strings_fluid.mp3 (71K)
  
Crappy headphones and lots of background noise, but isn't there a layer
missing from the fluid output?
It definitely sound different...
/R
  produced by hardware midi synthesizer, TiMidity++, and
 FluidSynth. It is the same midi and the same
 soundfont (8mbgmsfx.sf2).
 In contrast to TiMidity++ and the hardware midi synthesizer
 FluidSynth produces a clear attack.
 Inside a big orchestra this leads to inaudible strings.
 Or - if you increase the volume - to "attacking" strings.