mercoled?, 13 luglio 2005 alle 14:41:50, Allan Graves ha scritto: > Hi guys. I'm not a demudi wizard, so I thought I'd post this question > for help. My dad recently sent me a midi file that sounds awful on > his machine, and requested that I make it sound better. I've only got > the standard onboard audio, so I'm assuming 8mb max of samples, or fm > synthesis. This midi file is mainly organ, so I'm thinking that > zynsynth might do it, but I thought I'd post for discussion this > question: > "What's the best way using a stock demudi and no external synthesizer, > to take a GM file and get the best possible sound out of my computer? > " Probably using a GM soundfont with timidity or qsynth/fluidsynth. The problem with most of the soundfonts you find online is that they doesn't have an explicit licensing policy, so they can't be shipped with demudi. There was a plan to create a GPLed GM soundfont, but you know, it's a huge work. We have already some sounds: http://freepats.opensrc.org/ Those in the sf2 directory are of good quality IMHO, but they're not GM. You can find GM soundfonts for example on http://www.personalcopy.com Personally I use one I found on http://www.hammersound.net (under Sounds->Sound fonts->Collections, page 3) it's called "sYnerGi 8Mb GM" and it has a good balance and intonation between instruments (the main problem I've seen in GM soundfonts) and it's rather small. If you want to listen to differencies, some time ago I made a comparison between an hardware module (roland SC-D70), timidity with personalcopy soundfont and timidity with sYnerGi: http://emillo.net/download/MidiTest.zip (about 2Mb) > I know that initially, it won't matter if my playback device can't do > anything, but assuming there's a playback device included with demudi > that has good samples or synthesis, perhaps using some of the other > control codes that GM doesn't let me use may help? You should use the soundfonts with a soft-synth like timidity or qsynth/fluidsynth, so the soundcard doesn't matter as the samples are stored and used in RAM. > Anyway, thanks for your thoughts. HTH ciao -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net
