Hi Fabian and others,
>I believe we have at least three soundfonts in SF2 format packaged in
>Debian. If we add these to the alternatives system to provide
>/usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2, the effort would be manageable.
I’d be happy to add an /usr/share/sounds/sf2/default.sf2 alternative
to musescore-general-soundfont-lossless (which is about half a GiB
already and expected to grow). Please note the changed location, as
/usr/share/sounds/ is where soundfonts in Debian are expected to be
packaged, and we’ve been subdirectory’ing them by format.
Do we also wish a /usr/share/sounds/sf3/default.sf3 ? I’ve got four
providers for this…
- fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont (no longer updated)
- musescore-general-soundfont-small (actively developed)
- musescore-general-soundfont (actively developed)
- musescore-general-soundfont-lossless (see below)
Note that all SF2 soundfonts could also provide default.sf3, it’s
about the player capabilities which to choose.
On the other hand, putting them into /usr/share/sounds/sf?/ would
make the programs pick them up in soundfont listings, so perhaps
the different location (or just /usr/share/sounds/default.sf{2,3})
might make sense?
Should we also make all packages providing an alternative for this
Provides some virtual package, for others to depend on? I’d suggest
sf2-soundfont and sf3-soundfont for naming, and SF3 soundfonts can
Provides both of them.
Alternatives priorities could also be tricky. They can even differ
between default.sf2 and default.sf3…
As for SFZ soundfonts, I’m not aware of any already packaged, but
MuseScore lists stuff in /usr/share/sounds/sfz/ already, if extant.
Oh, and, one more question: what soundfonts are eligible?
• any honouring the SoundFont 2.00 (2.01, 2.04) standard
(for SF3: with Vorbis sample compression)
• + the GS set
• + the GM set
This might be tricky. Would uses rather have no sound (e.g. if we
require GM) [or more soundfonts installed] or bad sound (e.g. if we
don’t require GM, and, say fluid-soundfont-gs is the only installed)?
bye,
//mirabilos
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