[linux-audio-user] Midi Cards

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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:03 -0500, LinuxMedia wrote:
> >> How can I keep my MIDI from sounding like a cheesy video game?
> >> 
> >> I suspect its my card.  What card would give me excellent/sample
> >> quality midi or playback?
> > 
> > If you have an emu10k1 based card and are using the hardware
> > wavetable synth, the single best thing you can do is get a decent
> > soundfont.  The ones that come with the Windows driver all suck.
> 
> This is my standard answer to that... hehe... this is the best soundfont 
>   I've heard....
> 
> http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/fluid-unpacked/
> 
> It's 141 Megs. I (think) some hardware wavetable synths have limited 
> capacity. If so use a soft synth like fluidsynth.

I believe the emu10k1's hardware synth is limited to 128MB.  It would be
very useful if someone could trim that 141MB down to 128.

Lee


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