On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:27 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > 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 That's what I'd heard but I just loaded it into a fairly early revision Platinum. All I've done was check patches 0 and 127, but one can at least load 128MB worth and use parts of it.
