10 Feb
2007
10 Feb
'07
5:33 a.m.
>
> pascal lawrynowicz wrote:
>
>> I'm running a 64studio and have a trouble using it with Creative
>> Sound Blaster Platinum Live DriveII sound device (pretty old but
>> really cheap for what I need).
>>
>> I'm sure there's soundfonts in the device, allright?
>
>
> Not unless you actually loaded them. Try something like this command:
>
> asfxload /path/to/some/soundfont.sf2
>
> Good luck. Some distros seem to think sfxload/asfxload are negligible
> items or at least worthy of hidden status. I guess they figure we can
> stuff the fonts into the card by hand. :(
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
Hello, I want to know more :
I've heard of this command before, but I want to understand this deeper
: if I'll use asfxload it's to import external soundfonts in my device.
But I already used these cards on Win$ and the soundfonts were already
in there... And from what I heard it's the particularity of this device
there's already SF inside... So how can I have a direct access to them.
PL
www.percunivers.com
10 Feb
10 Feb
8:45 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Soundfonts
pascal lawrynowicz schreef:
Hello,
There are no soundfonts in these cards; they have to be loaded. On Win$
the GM soundfont is loaded during the installation of the card and it
stays there, even after shutting down (well actually, it is loaded by
default on startup). On Linux the soundfonts are not kept in the card
but have to be loaded every time you boot. Of course you can always make
a little script which gets executed at startup.
Greetings,
Bert
>
> pascal lawrynowicz wrote:
>
>> I'm running a 64studio and have a trouble using it with Creative
>> Sound Blaster Platinum Live DriveII sound device (pretty old but
>> really cheap for what I need).
>>
>> I'm sure there's soundfonts in the device, allright?
>
>
> Not unless you actually loaded them. Try something like this command:
>
> asfxload /path/to/some/soundfont.sf2
>
> Good luck. Some distros seem to think sfxload/asfxload are
> negligible items or at least worthy of hidden status. I guess they
> figure we can stuff the fonts into the card by hand. :(
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
Hello, I want to know more :
I've heard of this command before, but I want to understand this
deeper : if I'll use asfxload it's to import external soundfonts in my
device. But I already used these cards on Win$ and the soundfonts were
already in there... And from what I heard it's the particularity of
this device there's already SF inside... So how can I have a direct
access to them.
PL
www.percunivers.com
11 Feb
11 Feb
5:21 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Soundfonts
Could you suggest a script that will load soundfonts upon startup ?
Thanks,
Bob
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 13:45 +0100, Bert Visser wrote:
pascal lawrynowicz schreef:
Hello,
There are no soundfonts in these cards; they have to be loaded. On Win$
the GM soundfont is loaded during the installation of the card and it
stays there, even after shutting down (well actually, it is loaded by
default on startup). On Linux the soundfonts are not kept in the card
but have to be loaded every time you boot. Of course you can always make
a little script which gets executed at startup.
Greetings,
Bert
>
> pascal lawrynowicz wrote:
>
>> I'm running a 64studio and have a trouble using it with Creative
>> Sound Blaster Platinum Live DriveII sound device (pretty old but
>> really cheap for what I need).
>>
>> I'm sure there's soundfonts in the device, allright?
>
>
> Not unless you actually loaded them. Try something like this command:
>
> asfxload /path/to/some/soundfont.sf2
>
> Good luck. Some distros seem to think sfxload/asfxload are
> negligible items or at least worthy of hidden status. I guess they
> figure we can stuff the fonts into the card by hand. :(
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
Hello, I want to know more :
I've heard of this command before, but I want to understand this
deeper : if I'll use asfxload it's to import external soundfonts in my
device. But I already used these cards on Win$ and the soundfonts were
already in there... And from what I heard it's the particularity of
this device there's already SF inside... So how can I have a direct
access to them.
PL
www.percunivers.com
7:19 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Soundfonts
On Sunday 11 February 2007 22:20, Robert Vogel wrote:
Could you suggest a script that will load soundfonts
upon startup ?
Thanks,
Bob
Make sure first that you have the awesfx package installed. I use this script
that someone gave me. It runs from /home/username/.kde/autostart.
Presuming you have copied the soundfont from the cdrom for the soundcard to
your home directory, it goes like this.
In .kde/autostart right click, and select create new, then text file.
Name it something like soundfont.sh , with these contents.
#!/bin/bash
## Created by me to load soundfonts on login
sfxload <path-to-soundfont>
In my case this is: sfxload CT4MGM.SF2 , presuming you have the soundfont
installed in the /home/user directory.
Make sure to make the soundfont file executable in it's
properties/permissions.
Nigel.
12 Feb
12 Feb
3:56 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Soundfonts
> Could you suggest a script that will load
soundfonts upon startup ?
Make sure first that you have the awesfx package
installed. I use this script
that someone gave me. It runs from /home/username/.kde/autostart.
Presuming you have copied the soundfont from the cdrom for the soundcard to
your home directory, it goes like this.
In .kde/autostart right click, and select create new, then text file.
Name it something like soundfont.sh , with these contents.
#!/bin/bash
## Created by me to load soundfonts on login
sfxload <path-to-soundfont>
In my case this is: sfxload CT4MGM.SF2 , presuming you have the soundfont
installed in the /home/user directory.
Make sure to make the soundfont file executable in it's
properties/permissions.
Some of this goes beyond the scope of your immediate concern, but if you
have a multi-user system, you can put the above command in whatever
script is devoted to running commands during bootup. On my Planet CCRMA
system, it's located at: /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
If you do that, you might want to find a universal directory to put the
soundfont. I have a directory called /Snd were all soundfonts, samples,
instruments (etc) that are used by all users are located. Also, it makes
for a universal directory structure that all users can use for their
programs (make sure the owner of the directories and files are 'root'
and are readable by all so they can't be deleted by 'normal users'). For
instance, if you have a sound bank in Specimen, and it uses the samples
/Snd/Samples/Drums/Kick_04.wav, and /Snd/Samples/Drums/Snare_03.wav,
then you can share that Specimen Bank with any user, because any user
using that bank will be able to access those samples. It also means that
not every user needs to duplicate all these samples in their own home
directories.
This assumes that only one user uses the computer at at time. If it's a
network and several people are accessing the sound files at the same
time, I have no clue what would happen. I have zero experience with
networked systems.
Just a thought,
Rocco
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