On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:02:19PM -0600, Stephen Doonan wrote: > I downloaded the soundfont and imported it into qsynth, to play with my > external MIDI keyboard. Is this the way you yourself would use the > soundfont (with qsynth)? Or would you load the soundfont into some other > software or hardware? Yes, it can be used in qsynth. I also use qsynth myself. > In qsynth, the base layer (piano) is triggered on MIDI channel 1, and > the other velocity layers (piano layer 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) are assigned (by > default, anyway) to MIDI channels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Actually, only the channel 1 is needed, it does contain all the layers included into it. They will be triggered automatically by programming different velocity levels in a sequencer or playing your external MIDI keyboard at different pressure levels. It is very easy, just attach your MIDI keyboard to the channel 1 and start playing. The other channels in the soundfont are there for debugging or special purposes. For example, if you want a particular track of your sequencer to always sound bright, you could attach it to the channel 2. Under normal conditions you probably want to use the channel 1 only. Note that the pressure levels may vary between keyboard models. In my cheap keyboard I can only reach around velocity 110 no matter how strong I press the keys. Other people could find the opposite: that the strong layer is reached extremely soon, at soft levels. So that is what I was asking for feedback on the different keyboards (my keyboard is not a good reference). > However, I would very much like to try to use your soundfont, if it is > possible. Of course it's possible ;-) > Thanks again for your efforts and for this gift to the Linux and > open-source world. Let me know if you make music with it, I'll be happy to hear! In this soundfont the samples came from a donation made by the OLPC project, but it is rare to get such good samples with free licenses, so I'm working to sample other instruments myself, at high quality (24bit, 96Khz). If everything goes well, I hope to eventually announce a lot of high quality, free soundfonts. Though it is a slow process, it may take some time, and I need to convince some musician friends to let me sample their instruments (an invitation to lunch at a restaurant after the recording sessions may help) :-) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
