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

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:07 +0100, Jonty Needham wrote:
> 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. 
> 

This does not make sense.  The PC51 soundfont should work perfectly - it
does here.  Soundfonts don't get loaded into the card, they are loaded
into system memory.

> 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...
> 

The PC51 soundfont is considered one of the best.

> 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
> 
>