Bug#385665: Fwd: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function (Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:45 -0700)
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:35:35PM +0200, geiger wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > For my own edification, could you please explain how I would create a sound
> > font in swami? I could only find options to import existing sound fonts.
> You can create new soundfonts with file->new within swami.
Well, that part I've got. How do I put *sound* into it? :) I would assume
that I need to 'load samples', but the UI doesn't provide much guidance
concerning the format these samples should be in... ah, here we go, it was a
file dialog problem.
So yes, I can confirm that I'm able to create soundfonts loading arbitrary
.wav samples from disk. But is this the part that uses fluidsynth? That's
not clear to me. All of the "Load Wavetable" menu items in the UI do
nothing when I click them, for instance, so I'm not sure if fluidsynth is
what's being used for the sound output here?
> > > There are also soundfonts at freepats:
> > > http://freepats.opensrc.org/sf2/rhodes/, for example.
> > And freepats is also packaged, so if it's compatible, I see no reason why
> > fluidsynth should be regarded as inappropriate for main (or even buggy, if
> > it can also be used with swami to create new fonts).
> Me neither, but there is definitely a lack of good, free soundfonts.
> I don't think that moving fluidsynth to contrib and
> therefore removing part of the tools to make soundfonts would help the
> cause.
> The freepats as distributed in Debian are not compatible with fluidsynth,
> so what remains to be done is to package the soundfonts from the freepats
> site and clear their licenses (which I fear is not that easy).
Ok, in that case the best chance of clearing this up quickly is still to
show that swami is useful for authoring sound fonts and that fluidsynth
plays a role in this.
Thanks,
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