> I have ISA sound card AWE 64 with 24 MB RAM extention. > This way I can load the sound font "8mbgmsfx.sf2". > This is the one and only MIDI sound for my ears. > > All other techniques for instance software synthesis with > TiMidity++ sounds terrible to me, as if the > orchestra plays in a stock pot. People seem to go for softsynths still. google for "fluidsynth" from Peter Hanappe (right spelling?), which loads .sf2 files. BTW, I think timidity ok. cheers, tobias.