On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:03 pm, 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. > > Rocco What's the deal with the licensing on that? Where did it originate? I'll break out some patches to have a look see, but if we can get a definite call on on the legality I'll shave it down to 128MB. Breaking it into separate Music & FX wouldn't suck. Wouldn't be GM, but that's a lowest common denominator anyway.
