On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:31 pm, Mark Constable wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > >>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. > > I'd really like to rearrange that soundfont and get rid of > (to me) some crap... and perhaps try to improve some of the > sounds with better samples... but every time I have tried > to use smurf over the years it just dies on me. Smurf is working here. Let's see if we can get a consensus on "crap", or a least see which way the wind is blowing. > > Are there any other tools, especially CLI ones, that could > pull apart a sf2 soundfont and put it back together ? > > A CLI mode sf2compiler would be excellent... then some parts > of the procedure could be easily batched/automated. > > One solution is to simply use LinuxSampler (for decent sounds) > but the likeyhood of finding free and useful gig files is near > or less than zero. > > --markc
