gioved?, 03 marzo 2005 alle 15:24:11, John Check ha scritto: > Is there any sort of distribution channel set up for patches to run on all > of the glorious linux audio apps? > > It would be pretty cool to have a library of cleared instruments/samples > for the community to build on. Patches for some of the advanced synths > could also be available. > > There's a lot of potential for legal issues, but I'm thinking the EFF would be Here you'll find a GPL soundfont of a fender rhodes and an hydrogen drumkit (simply a tar.gz of flacs with a different name): http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/audio/instruments/lausounds/ there's also a big wav with mellotron samples, but it isn't turned into a soundfont yet (and I don't have the time to do it) > interested in this kind of thing. > > J Definitely, It would be very important to have a shared common patch set (possibly high quality) to ship with the applications and linux distributions (I'm thinking also to a relatively small GPL GM sf2 to ship with timidity for example) - in this respect eawpat is a great resource, but it is rather huge (around 30 megs IIRC) and if I'm right it lacks some instruments. Obviously the task of creating a free high quality GM soundfont is challenging and time consuming... but it would be a great resource for us all. I think the right dimension for a GM soundfont would be around 8/16 Mb, and is difficult to push 127 instruments into such small size... Sorry for my english, I think it can be very involved at times:) Ciao -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net
