I just released a Smurf Sound Font Editor v0.49.8. Since I've never announced the existence of this app on linux-audio-dev before I figured I would do it this once. Homepage: http://smurf.sourceforge.net This is the description of the app in the README: Smurf is a GTK based sound font editor. Sound font files are a collection of audio samples and other data that describe instruments for the purpose of composing music. Sound fonts do not describe the music itself, but rather the sounds of the instruments. These instruments can be composed of any digitally recordable or generated sound. This format provides a portable and flexible sound generation environment that can be supported in hardware or software. Changes in this version: Experimental waveform generator, some midi controls on toolbar, sample cut support, improved menu interface, toolbar icons, fixed various problems with the sound font tree, a German translation, configurable keyboard key map for piano, more sample related preferences, fixed audiofile sample export bug, other bug fixes and code clean up/reformatting. I think one of the main things stopping common users from using this app is that it doesn't have direct support for software based wavetable emulation. Right now a user has to have an AWE 32/64 or Live! card to actually hear the changes they make. If they don't have one of these, they can still edit the sound font, but have no way of hearing it until they save the sound font, and then manually load it into some wavetable emulator like Timidity++ or csound (I have not tried either yet). If anyone is interested in helping with something like this, that would be great. I know Timidity++ has ALSA sequencer support, this is on my list. But the patch loading remains, and I'm not sure if this has been accomplished in ALSA yet. Josh Green
