On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 davidrclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > With wavetable synthesis... ... and that's the only thing I'm talking about ... > I did now finally see 2 or 3 dropped notes with pmidi. This seems to be a small problem to you, but ... > The 8mbgmsfx.sf2 soundfont supplied by Creative Labs was worse > than a 4 MB Steinway piano-only soundfont file. The Steinway soundfont > VERY RARELY dropped any notes... ... it does not occur as rarely as you might think. Bear in mind: The ALSA developrs asked for a "good" example. Thus, I offer a 2-staff example because I euqate "good" and "simple".(?) The situation dramatically changes if you play a whole orchestra. I supply about 10 examples with my musical score editor NoteEdit (http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html) It is practiaclly impossible to play these examples without dropping notes. Especially if the drum or percussion fails this is very angry. It happens also if I use the FluidR3 font. And - to make this clear - independend of whether I play with NoteEdit or the exported MIDI files with any arbitary MIDI player and/or sequencer or whatever you have in mind, as long as these MIDI player/sequencer uses the hardware wavetable synthesis. And more important: It never occurs with AWE64 independend of the soundfond and/or the MIDI player and/or sequencer. -- J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
