On Friday 11 March 2005 07:44 am, tim hall wrote: > 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? Pre Jack yes. Yer keyboard should be fired up before you start the program. I notice a bug (or feature perhaps) where by edits don't get loaded into the wavetable until it's refreshed. Fastest way is to select another patch (sample|instrument|preset) then reselect the edited one. You may also need MIDI thru set appropriately. > > > > 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. > > cheers, > > tim hall > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
