[PlanetCCRMA] general soundfont questions

[Tom Poe]

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
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>PlanetCCRMA mailing list
>PlanetCCRMA@ccrma.stanford.edu
>http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma
>
>  
>
Nigel:  Thanks for the info.  I'll check out configuring QSynth. 
Tom

-- 
94% of returning troops suffer from trauma
Open Studios
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/