Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:15 am
Would be nice to have fluidr3.fs2 as default sound fonts for LMMS.
For those who still works with midi.
For those who still works with midi.
Default sound fonts for LMMS.
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Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:45 am
Yes, a good GM soundfont would be nice, so you can work with the GM standard instruments right away.
Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:30 pm
If you can find a good one with GPL licence and it is less than 10mb, maybe it could be included in the future.
Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:27 pm
Mine is 124 MB here is the download location.
http://www.musescore.org/download/fluid ... ont.tar.gz
Debian's package is about 113 MB in size.
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/fluid-soundfont-gm
http://www.musescore.org/download/fluid ... ont.tar.gz
Debian's package is about 113 MB in size.
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/fluid-soundfont-gm
Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:20 am
I found this old public domain soundfont:
http://www.sf2midi.com/9bb-8mbgmgs-sf2/
http://ftp4.se.freebsd.org/pub/awe32/so ... mbgmgs.zip
The quality is only moderate compared to the fluid soundfont, but for its small size I'd say it's still quite good.
http://www.sf2midi.com/9bb-8mbgmgs-sf2/
http://ftp4.se.freebsd.org/pub/awe32/so ... mbgmgs.zip
The quality is only moderate compared to the fluid soundfont, but for its small size I'd say it's still quite good.
Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:55 pm
It is a nice little package of sound fonts, for the small size.caLRo wrote:I found this old public domain soundfont:
http://www.sf2midi.com/9bb-8mbgmgs-sf2/
http://ftp4.se.freebsd.org/pub/awe32/so ... mbgmgs.zip
The quality is only moderate compared to the fluid soundfont, but for its small size I'd say it's still quite good.
It's only 8053 K compared to fluidr which is 142 M in size.(unpacked)
Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:42 pm
You see, LMMS is around 27 mb now. Increasing the file size 359% because of a sf2 file just isn't an option.Eino wrote:Mine is 124 MB here is the download location.
I looked into 8mbgmgs.sf2
Organ 1, in bank 0 doesn't play, That is a major fault when you import a MIDI file and one track isn't playing.
Fretless bass, patch 35 bank 0 doesn't play. Same goes for a lot of these...
Also it seemed very suspicious that it was made out of samples from the internet, and didn't have a licence... We must be able to get a GPL licence.
LMMS needs the best soundfont with GPL licence which also is fairly small. I think it only needs sounds in bank 0, cause those are the ones being used when importing MIDI, and that is the only reason I have to include a sf2 in LMMS, or else we should include VSTs too..
Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:49 am
+1 to needing the best possible, but iirc it needs to be CC0, not GPL.Sti-Jay wrote:LMMS needs the best soundfont with GPL licence which also is fairly small. I think it only needs sounds in bank 0, cause those are the ones being used when importing MIDI, and that is the only reason I have to include a sf2 in LMMS, or else we should include VSTs too..
Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:52 pm
Well if you think about it GPL only means that we must provide source code / appropriate link to the source, but with CC0 we can also let out that. I guess GPL is more for software though... A free licence which can be used for commercial purposes is the minimum criteria.Stakeout Punch wrote: +1 to needing the best possible, but iirc it needs to be CC0, not GPL.
Fri Dec 26, 2014 5:18 pm
Samples & other resources meant to be used by users need to be CC0 or equivalent.
GPL is for source code, copyleft makes sense there, but there's no "source code" for samples.
GPL is for source code, copyleft makes sense there, but there's no "source code" for samples.