Hi Kevin, DCould you please send the link to me? I can transfer it from the PC to my Mac. many thanks, Christian
On 2006-10-25 at 08:12 Kevin Reeves wrote: >Hey everyone. I'm sure some of you enjoy playing midi files downloaded >from the web. However, the default set of sounds, known as the General >Midi wave table is less than desireable. Here's a cool way to replace the >current sound set with a better one. Core audio uses sound fonts, which >have a .sf2 extention. There are lots of free sites that offer >downloadable sound fonts. Locate a GM Sound Font and download it. Place it >in the library/audio/sounds/banks folder. Then,go into system preferences >and launch theQuick Time preference. In the advanced tab, set the >synthesizer to the gm bank you just put in the banks folder. Close the >preferences, and you're done. Depending on the sound font you downloaded, >you should hear a massive improvement in the sound quality. Note. For this >to work properly, you must find a GM or General Midi bank. This way the >sounds will be propperly assigned when a midi file is played. Soon, I will > place a link to a free one that is absolutely amazing. I need to find a >place to host it because the archive that it is in is a .exe file, which >only works on a PC. If anyone has any ideas, hit me up. > >Kevin Reeves > >www.kevinreeves.net
