7 Jul
2004
7 Jul
'04
7:18 a.m.
The sfark program works fine under wine. Use that to decompress the soundfonts.
I have tried quite a few free piano soundfonts, they are quite nice, but I
have a problem with fluidsynth. The polyphony works a bit wrong. If I press
one key down hard and then whack a chord (the same chord, all the time)
about 10-20 times, the first not will stop playing.
It seems that fluidsynth does not realize, that at least with the piano
sound, the same 'sound slot' should be used over and over for the chord.
Does anyone know a fix for this, is fluidsynth just configured wrong, or is
the problem with the soundfonts I've used?
Sampo
Quoting Atte André Jensen <atte(a)ballbreaker.dk>dk>:
Hi
Being new to soundfonts I baically needed a decent piano soundfont for
arranging stuff for my students, but after shopping around, I thought it
maybe could be taken a step further. So my question is: Are soundfonts
good enough for "real" music production? And where can I find nice ones
to download? I guess I'm looking for imitations of real instruments,
mostly piano, accoustic drums and bass, but expressive strings and other
orchestral sounds would also be nice.
So far I found the "FluidR3 GM.SF2" (142M), how does that compare to
what's outthere? I also found alot of .sfArk sounds but it seems they
are in som kind of windows-only compressed format. I downloaded the
sfarkxtc_lx86.tar.gz but it complains "This file was created with sfArk
V1, and this program only handles sfArk V2+ files. Use sfArk instead."
on all the .sfArk-files I downloaded. Is there a linux utility that will
uncompress those files?
I run debian/unstable and plan on using fluidsynth and rosegarden if it
matters...
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peace, love & harmony
Atte
http://www.atte.dk