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Would be nice to have fluidr3.fs2 as default sound fonts for LMMS.
For those who still works with midi.

Yes, a good GM soundfont would be nice, so you can work with the GM standard instruments right away.

If you can find a good one with GPL licence and it is less than 10mb, maybe it could be included in the future.

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

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.

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 is a nice little package of sound fonts, for the small size.
It's only 8053 K compared to fluidr which is 142 M in size.(unpacked)

Eino wrote:Mine is 124 MB here is the download location.

You see, LMMS is around 27 mb now. Increasing the file size 359% because of a sf2 file just isn't an option.

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..

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..

+1 to needing the best possible, but iirc it needs to be CC0, not GPL.

Stakeout Punch wrote: +1 to needing the best possible, but iirc it needs to be CC0, not GPL.

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.

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.