Re: Soundfont sf2 support
Re: Soundfont sf2 support
- Subject: Re: Soundfont sf2 support
- From: Bill Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 18:31:49 -0700
The music engine in QT is using the CoreAudio synth, so yes it is the same
It is a great help if you can file bugs about SF files that don't work - we
will fix them if we know about them if we can
Bill
on 3/5/02 3:22 PM, Stephan Petrequin wrote:
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I have a SF2 soundfont that doesn't produce sound in Quicktime, it is
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one I created with Vienna Studio on my old PC and it works fine with
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SBLive and LiveSynth Pro, but not in Quicktime for the PC or OS X. I
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haven't tried it in OS 9. Does CoreAudio use the same engine as
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Quicktime?
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Stephan Petrequin
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On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 02:33 PM, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote:
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> On Lundi, avril 29, 2002, at 11:17 , Chris Rogers wrote:
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>> Jean-Alexis,
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>> SoundFont version 2 files should be supported. There should be no
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>> restrictions. If you have certain ones which seem to have problems,
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>> please file a bug about it.
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> I tried three of them found on hammer sound
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> (http://www.hammersound.com/), in the 'collection' category:
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> http://www.jazzybee.com/fluid/
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> works, some volumes seems wrong (huge font, 135mo)
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> http://bennetng.uhome.net/AnotherGS/AnotherGS.html
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> many patches produce no sound, e.g. drums
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> http://www.sccmusic.250x.com/sfont/genuser/download.htm
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> In this font, many patches does not work, some have a wrong envelope,
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> some don't play at all. e.g. pianos, drums
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> Those font are freeware, compressed with exotic, sometime PC only
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> compressors, I don't trust especially the compliance of these files to a
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> standard. They seem to work fine on PC, but I have no way to check their
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> validity.
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>> Also, if you have a quick and easy example of a freeware SoundFont file
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>> that you have a web link to, then I could have a quick look since I'm
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>> interested in fixing any problems here...
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> Well, if you have a PC to decompress the archives, they are easy to
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> download.
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> I tried them with SimpleSynth application.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Chris Rogers
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>> Core Audio
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> Hope it helps, let me now if you want a bug filled.
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> Jean-Alexis Montignies.
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