Hi Guenter,
I hope you're fine, it's been a long time since we met in Barcelona,
years ago... Are you still there ?
I'm dealing with bug #385665 and your help would be greatly
appreciated.
Someon is requesting to move fluidsynth from main/ to contrib/ arguing
that 'fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function'. The
argument really is that there aren't free SF2 files available out
there. I could found lots of them but it wasn't sufficient apparently.
I desperately tried to demonstrate that in any case the sound banks
you use with fluidsynth may be copyrighted or not and this shouldn't
make fluidsynth depend on free/non-free packages...
Anyway, I have one question that could solve the problem quickly: is
it possible to create SF2 files with swami from scratch ? Just a plain
sine wave ?
Thanks,
Eric.
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From: Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#385665: fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:45:42 -0700
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Eric,
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:46:17PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:27:10AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > Swami for example uses fluidsynth as its synthesizer engine and works
> > perfectly without external sound banks.
> That's new information to me; that would definitely be a case to keep
> libfluidsynth1 in main, IMNSHO fluidsynth still has to go into contrib.
If swami is really able to make use of fluidsynth without the need for any
external sound banks, then this would seem to be a cut-and-dried case. Can
you please step me through how I would do that? I can't see anywhere that
swami lets me create sound fonts from scratch, and I don't see any
documentation within the app about what format a sample needs to be in for
me to import it?
Thanks,
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