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On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:14, Viktor Mastoridis wrote:

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> I keep on getting Xruns when trying to work with soundfonts on rosegarden

> or muse, especially if I combine several sf2 banks with several audio

> tracks (on Ardour, prior to use plugins). So far, I was running them

> through Qsynth, but I read on the net that the combination of Qsynth,

> Rosegarden/Muse and Ardour is regarded as not so stable?

> 

what is non-stable about it?
qsynth _is_ fluidsynth with a gui. it has no difference regarding audio

(jack) real-time performance whatsoever. both applications do use the

very same synth engine (libfluidsynth). however you can have more than

one synth engine with qsynth, a trick only possible with several

instances of fluidsynth (cli).
>

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> Thus, if you don't mind sharing your experience, I will be thankful.

>

>

> What is the best way that you use Soundfont banks in Linux?

> 

afaics, there's fluidsynth/qsynth and timidity++. you choose which is

best ;)
>

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> By 'best', I mean the most stable way, without X-runs and listing/access

> to all the banks and instruments in a soundfont.

> 

i guess either fluidsynth or qsynth fits the bill ;)
> Is running fluidsynth from a command line a better alternative then

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> qsynth and why? (fluidsynth command line: how does one create a midi input

> and audio output port for each sf2 bank?)

> 

as said, you can run several fluidsynth instances each with its own

soundfont loaded. you must take care of distinct fluidsynth alsa/jack

client names though, there's command line options for just that. again,

with qsynth you achieve the same with easier gui setup.
>

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> Can you please tell me your experience in buying professional .gig or

> .sf2 sounds? Strings, pianos, accordeons especially.

> Sites, prices, quality?

>

> What is better for profesional results: .sf2 or .gig?

> 

linuxsampler is best and _the_ one for .gig's, which depending on the

sample library and vendor, it's technically superior and several notches

above soundfont specification, be it in terms of multi-sample layering,

dimension and articulation. also, linuxsampler's resource management is

state-of-the-art, letting you play way bigger (and definitively

professional) sample libraries than fluidsynth/qsynth, which in fact

needs to load and lock all soundfonts _completely_ in ram, so you know

the drill ;)
cheers

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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

rncbc@rncbc.org

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