On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:34, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>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. > Because most people use them on Windows and you need a third party program to uncompress zip and gzip on that platform. Lee
