[PlanetCCRMA] general soundfont questions

[Nigel Henry]

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