Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 18:24, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>>>>"Erik" == Erik Steffl <steffl@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> One of the ones that produces a scary noise is called 8mbgmsfx.sf2. >> >> Is that what you're thinking of? I don't seem to have an 8gmgsmt.sf2. >> >> Erik> 8MBGMSFX.SF2 >> >>I got it. It wasn't the .sf2 file being bad -- it was having an old >>version of sfxload hanging around in /usr/local/bin. The new version >>downloaded by apt-get sounds fine. >> > > > Also, there are much better free (as in beer) soundfonts available than > the ones that come with the SBLive. Google for "personal copy > soundfont". Q: why are soundfonts mostly in funny formats (exe? sfArk?), instead of compressed *SF2 files (using some common compression program like zip or gzip etc.). That's not only on personal copy site but pretty much all the site that have soundfonts. erik
