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
