At Tue, 02 Jul 2002 03:59:15 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > > Frank Boehme wrote: > > Mark Constable wrote: > >>I'd love to see some effort put into a "reference soundfont" > >> ... > > Hmm. There was a posting on the muse-ML about a "mega"-soundfont. I > > missed the begin of the thread so I do not know if that soundfont was > > supposed to be some sort of reference soundfont. But people kept > > praising it. It is available from some website in a special compressed > > format apparently especially designed to compress sf2 files. There is no > > corresponding decomression utility available under Linux but someone > > uncompressed the font under M$ and put it on some ftp server. I > > donwloaded that huge file (140+ Mb !!) and tried to load it into > > iiwusynth. After a minute of freeze, my X server died (iiwusynth was > > running suid root). Haven't done any more experiments yet... > > Yes, fluid3_gm.sf2 at that URL I posted is the uncompressed > version of said mega-soundfont. It loads into my old SBlive > Ok and does sound quite good. > > Does anyone know of a command line utility that will split up > a sf2 soundfont into it's components and be able to rebuild > it again, after manual modifications ? swami (formerly smurf)?
> Oh, and does anyone know why sfxload has not been ported to a > 100% ALSA interface ? my laziness :) well, more exact reason is that i don't like the implementation of soundfont parser on kernel. in the case of sfxload, most of structure-parsing is done in the awesfx library. sfxload just transfers the parsed raw data to the driver. on the present alsa instrument layer, the (most of) instrument structure must be parsed on the destination part for keeping generality. and i believe it's too much for a kernel driver. perhaps this can be implemented better as an alsa-lib's shared object model, accessing the hwdep device on each card. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
