On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 22:19, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 07:10:24PM +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: > > I wonder how difficult will be to make a new set of patches for > > timidity... any volunteer? > > The timidity patches need replacing because they're crap. If they are > also non-free crap, they _really_ have got to go. In ages past, I tried > to get in contact with the guy who put together the Chaos Bank soundfont, > which is still the best freely-downloadable GM sample set I've heard, > though some of the percussion could be a little stronger. I dunno; I found Chaos Bank on www.hammersound.net and tried it. It sounds a bit funny and some of the samples are noticeably out of tune. I've always thought the Midia patch set was quite good, although back when I still used a GUS I thought the Gravis one was marginally better (and was half the size). But thanks for the pointer. I should be able to find something with, like, an actual license on that site. BTW, timidity handles soundfonts perfectly. It's just not in the documentation. If we can find a good GM soundfont, it would make a rather better timidity-patches than the 200 .pat files it has now. > Unfrotunately, there's no license, the host site is long gone, and the > author seems to have been hit by a bus or something. =( Still, you might > have more luck now than I did before, and it is a really good soundfont. What *is* it with patch set authors and licenses...? -- +- David Given --McQ-+ Did you hear about the hard-working but ill sage | dg@cowlark.com | who got cursed with garlic breath? He was a | (dg@tao-group.com) | super-calloused fragile mystic hexed with +- www.cowlark.com --+ halitosis.
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