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setting_up_the_fluidr3_gm.sf2_for_timidity [2008/08/03 03:46]
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setting_up_the_fluidr3_gm.sf2_for_timidity [2022/05/06 16:07]
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| Someone suggested that timidity is not up to it when it comes to being a nice midi synth for use with Rosegardes. I investigated ways to improve its sound by using the FluidR3_GM.sf2 soundfont which can be found in the package repositories of many distributions these days. | |
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| You will need admin privileges to do the following. On Red Hat based distros you are not always set up to use sudo, you might have to su to a privileged shell, instead. | |
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| First install the soundfont | |
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| ''sudo apt-get install FluidR3_GM.sf2'' \\ | |
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| ''sudo yum install FluidR3_GM.sf2'' (if you're on a Red Hat based distro) | |
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| Other people you're on your own. :-D | |
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| You will find it in ''/usr/share/sounds/sf2/'' (Ubuntu, possibly all debian derivs)\\ | |
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| ''/usr/share/soundfonts/'' (redhat) | |
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| Then open /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg | |
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| ''sudo gedit /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg'' | |
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| There will be a line at the bottom of the config file which reads | |
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| ''source freepats.cfg'' | |
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| replace that with the following | |
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| (Ubuntu) | |
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| ''dir /usr/share/sounds/sf2/''\\ | |
| ''soundfont FluidR3_GM.sf2'' | |
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| (Red Hat) | |
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| ''dir /usr/share/soundfonts/''\\ | |
| ''soundfont FluidR3_GM.sf2'' | |
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| save the file | |
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| And then in a terminal | |
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| ''sudo /etc/init.d/timidity restart''\\ | |
| for Ubuntu and friends | |
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| For Fedora you might need to install timidity and set it up to run as a daemon as it is done in Ubuntu. This is beyond my knowledge. Perhaps you know how to do this? I know that CCRMA has timidity in its list of applications. See | |
| http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/soundapps.html. | |
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| SOM | |
