Re: [Alsa-user] Wavetable synths and Alsa

[Mark C. <ma...@re...>]

Frank Boehme wrote:

> Comparing these two, I found (at least for me) that timidity with the
> famous eawpatches cannot be beaten by iiwusynth, although I tried loads
> of different soundfonts.

I would agree that throwing any MIDI file at Timidity generally
sounds better than any soundfont combo in iiwusynth or SBlive.

> I would therefore like to use iiwusynth but can anybody point me to a
> really good soundfont for gerneral purposes (strings, piano, brass,...)?

I'd love to see some effort put into a "reference soundfont" so
that we could say ie; "such and such piano instrument 1 sounds
better|brighter|bigger|warmer|whatever than our reference soundfont
instrument". A combination of the best of these two soundfonts and
the best *.pat files from various Timidity patch sets would be a
great start... my smurf/swami skills are, so far, very limited...

  http://soundfont.opensrc.org/

--markc