On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Mark Constable wrote: > Excellent, thanks... any chance of the FluidSynth string > envelope problem .... Ok, I got it! At the end of: http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/DROP/gap.html You'll find 3 files: - strings_hardware.mp3 (67K) - strings_timidity.mp3 (121K) - strings_fluid.mp3 (71K) produced by hardware midi synthesizer, TiMidity++, and FluidSynth. It is the same midi and the same soundfont (8mbgmsfx.sf2). In contrast to TiMidity++ and the hardware midi synthesizer FluidSynth produces a clear attack. Inside a big orchestra this leads to inaudible strings. Or - if you increase the volume - to "attacking" strings. -- J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)