Hi, onsdagen den 7 juli 2004 11.08 skrev Sampo Savolainen: > The sfark program works fine under wine. Use that to decompress the > soundfonts. > > I have tried quite a few free piano soundfonts, they are quite nice, but I > have a problem with fluidsynth. The polyphony works a bit wrong. If I press > one key down hard and then whack a chord (the same chord, all the time) > about 10-20 times, the first not will stop playing. > > It seems that fluidsynth does not realize, that at least with the piano > sound, the same 'sound slot' should be used over and over for the chord. > > Does anyone know a fix for this, is fluidsynth just configured wrong, or is > the problem with the soundfonts I've used? I don't know about this specific issue, but fluidsynth has some known problems with certain patches. There was a lot of talk about them here a while ago. I think it works very good anyway. Some patches sound strange, but they are far between. /Robert > > > Sampo > > Quoting Atte Andr? Jensen <atte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi > > > > Being new to soundfonts I baically needed a decent piano soundfont for > > arranging stuff for my students, but after shopping around, I thought it > > maybe could be taken a step further. So my question is: Are soundfonts > > good enough for "real" music production? And where can I find nice ones > > to download? I guess I'm looking for imitations of real instruments, > > mostly piano, accoustic drums and bass, but expressive strings and other > > orchestral sounds would also be nice. > > > > So far I found the "FluidR3 GM.SF2" (142M), how does that compare to > > what's outthere? I also found alot of .sfArk sounds but it seems they > > are in som kind of windows-only compressed format. I downloaded the > > sfarkxtc_lx86.tar.gz but it complains "This file was created with sfArk > > V1, and this program only handles sfArk V2+ files. Use sfArk instead." > > on all the .sfArk-files I downloaded. Is there a linux utility that will > > uncompress those files? > > > > I run debian/unstable and plan on using fluidsynth and rosegarden if it > > matters... > > > > -- > > peace, love & harmony > > Atte > > > > http://www.atte.dk -- http://spamatica.se/music/
