On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mark Constable wrote:
  Is it possible that Timidity does not sound quite as
clean as
 the hardware version because you have it's effects on by default ?
 To compare Timidity you really need to
  -EFreverb=0 -EFdelay=0 -EFchorus=0
  
These three options were active.
 Thanks to your comparison mp3s I would not bother using FluidSynth
 for anything. These and your other examples indicate this obnoxious
 attack and again, it sounds nearly a semi-tone too high. 
Ok, but I regard the semi-tone as a minor problem.
 BTW how did you record the output from the SBlive to wav ?
  
I have Audigy2 and I simply used
 acreord -f wav -t S16_LE -r 44100 -d 60 -c 2 <file>.wav
With "amixer" I set the "capture" slider to maximum and there
is still a slider "music capture". I set this slider to
maximum, too. That's all.
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J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)