On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Try setting the output to "pulseaudio" (which should really be the >> default in Fedora, I'll have to set that default somewhere). I recommend >> timidity++ as FluidSynth's PulseAudio support leaves a lot to be desired > > Ok, I will try timidity with the pulseaudio setting later (I tried it with the > default alsa setting and no sound). > > Do you know how I load a sound font in timidity, or is the default > /etc/timidity.cfg all I need (it points to > /usr/share/soundfonts/somethingorother.sf2)? > Fedora's default soundfont is /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2. It would be good to configure the software to use the default soundfont. What would be better is to make the corresponding package require "soundfont2-default", and patch in the Fedora defaults. If you go the timidity way, timidity.cfg should work out of the box. File a bug if it does not. Timidity uses the "patches" format of the same default soundfont. "Patches" means lower quality and less instruments. Since "patches" take a lot of space, we needed to cut their size from 4-5GB to ~200MB. This resulted in a little bit of a quality loss. With kmid2, the best quality results are achieved via fluidsynth/qsynth/jack/qjackctl combination, as it is with most midi applications. fluidsynth/qsynth/alsa should be good too. In these cases, you will have the full quality soundfont. Orcan
