On Fri, 11 Mar, 2005 at 12:44PM +0000, tim hall spake thus: > Last Thursday 10 March 2005 21:08, John Check was like: > > As far as moving patches from one font to another, hilite the source patch > > and right click over the destination for a context menu with "paste". > > FWIW, Multiple selections work. What other questions have ye? > > Thanks John, I'll try it again then. > > How do I get smurf to make any sound? I have ALSA/MIDI working perfectly and > yet I don't seem to be able to hook my external keyboard up so it can trigger > the soundfont I want to edit. Smurf is pre-JACK isn't it? > > > > doesn't help much and I never got round to compiling Swami, it's not > > > included in AGNULA/DeMuDi, so I'm wondering if it's less-than-free or > > > what the deal is with it. It strikes me as being dumb to use the .sf2 > > > format if we don't have an accessible editor. Either we help Josh Green > > > make Swami accessible and distributable or we should seriously consider > > > some other options. > > > > Well.. the format exists already and is widespread, so while designing a > > replacement or reimplementation ?has it's merits, it'd be throwing out the > > baby with the bath water. > > I wasn't really suggesting throwing out the baby. If it's an open format, no > problem. If there are no license problems, I would have thought that building > a command-line interface for SWAMI would really be the way to go. That does solve some "problems" - it becomes commandline and more accessible. It doesn't really solve all of them, though: you'd have to have a program that did everything in a session. Ideally, we want a way to be able to create soundfonts as they are needed with commandline tools. You get the accessibility, plus you can write the patch descriptions in any editor, or from a script, whatever. You then just compile the description and waves into a soundfont. This way is much more flexible. > cheers, > > tim hall > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
