[linux-audio-user] YASQ: Soundfonts and Audigy

[julien Brulé]

Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 10:07, Jonty Needham a écrit :
> Many thanks Julien. I found I was windozed; the soundfonts on the CL cd
> were labelled *.SF2, not *.sf2, which was why I couldn't find them. I
> have since loaded PC51f onto my soundcard, but as my sound card only
> appears to have 8 megs of space on it, I have a somewhat cut down
> collection.
>
no problem, it was a pleasure...

> Does anyone have any reccomendations on which soundfonts to use, or
> whether it's better to use a softsynth, or maybe I should just try these
> things out...

you can found have good sound fount with emu CD, or with akai
some of tihs can be load with asfxload.

otherwelse you can use qsynth, fluidsynth, or follow linux sampler to have 
good soft synth sound

you can make your own sound with zynaddsubfx, pd, jmax

cheers 

julien

>
> Many Thanks
> Jonty
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:41, julien Brulé wrote:
> > Le Mardi 9 Mai 2006 13:12, Jonty Needham a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > > Yet Another Stupid Question: I have a Creative Labs Soundblaster
> > > Audigy, with no soundfonts loaded onto it. I have placed the CL CD in
> > > and found no soundfonts with it.
> >
> > i found it in a french CL CD....it is in a sub-sub-subdirectorie.....
> >
> > > I do have the PC51f.sf2 soundfont, which I assume
> > > you load onto the soundcard with asfxload, but the last time I tried
> > > this I couldn't make my any noise.
> >
> > after that you should use aconnect....with aconnect -lio (list input
> > ouput) and aconnect client:port recept:port
> >
> > maybe you need to tweak the alsamixer...
> >
> > > Could anyone point out what I should do/have done wrong/which friendly
> > > manual I should read?
> > >
> > > Jonty