On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 6:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > First off I have a via 8233 sound chip on this machine, it's not a > sound blaster type of PCI device. > Mandrake sets it up under ALSA, and franky I generally don't like to > mess with it these days, as, touch wood, it seems fairly solid now. > but then I also note, > Step 2. Get a Soundfont > ======================= > Now you need to find a file, 8MBGMSFX.SF2, on your Soundblaster > installation disk and move it to your hard drive. > > I think it would help if I knew where rosegarden stores it's sound > fonts and to take a look at them and see what if anything in likely > to work with yamaha 's sound fonts. > > If there is nothing suitable installed then I need to try to build a > yamaha sound font of my own. I suppose there must be some somewhere > on the yamaha keyboard itself , I wonder where they are and if I > could access them.Just trying to think of some easy way to get it > right. > > Anyway, the essence of the matter is that I need a workable sound > font for this yamaha keyboard and get rosegarden to addopt it. Is > that it ?
Try the attached file. If that plays OK then you don't need a soundfont with your card. In fact the easiest way is probably to use the rosegarden mapper. Tracks->Remap Instruments->Instrument but I couldn't get it to do anything. Maybe you need to conact the rosegarden people and ask them -- Richard Urwin
test.mid
Description: MIDI audio
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