Re: general soundfont questions

Nigel Henry wrote:

> On Thursday 09 March 2006 05:31, Tom Poe wrote:
>  
>
> > I got all inspired after being introduced to lead sheets and playing
> > piano, today.  I'm pretty sure I can set up vkeybd, Rosegarden4, Jack,
> > and QSynth? to learn how to play chords using my PC keyboard.  Somebody
> > stop me, if that's a ridiculous claim.
> >
> > I started reading through the Rosegarden4 manual to set up stuff, and
> > quickly arrived at the part that calls for loading soundfonts.  Does
> > CCRMA include general soundfonts when I install?  When I run command: #
> > locate soundfont
> > /usr/include/sound/soundfont.h
> > /usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-soundfont.desktop
> > /lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/build/include/sound/soundfont.h
> >
> > Any recommendation for downloading general soundfont files for my sound
> > card:
> >    
>
> Hi Tom. Soundfonts can't be loaded onto your card. Only Audigy, or SBlive 
> cards with a hardware wavetable synth, and using the emu10k1 driver, are 
> capable of having soundfonts loaded onto them.
>
> The alternatives are to use TiMidity, or use Qsynth and load soundfonts (.sf2) 
> into that.
>
> GM soundfonts, and others are available from. http://www.hammersound.net/ , 
> and other places on the Internet.  All the best. Nigel.
>  
>
> > $ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
> > snd_intel8x0           33856  0
> > snd_ac97_codec         83708  1 snd_intel8x0
> > snd_seq_dummy           4228  2
> > snd_seq_oss            37888  0
> > snd_seq_midi_event      7680  1 snd_seq_oss
> > snd_seq                60176  5
> > snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device          9868 
> > 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> > snd_pcm_oss            63776  0
> > snd_mixer_oss          21376  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm               106632  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_timer              28292  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> > snd                    68612  11
> > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,sn
> > d_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore  
> >            9824  1 snd
> > snd_page_alloc         11140  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> >    
>
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>  
Nigel:  Thanks for the info.  I'll check out configuring QSynth. 
Tom

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