Re: [Rosegarden-user] restarting qsynth

[Richard C. <spa...@ec...>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:51:02 -0400, D. Michael McIntyre  
<mic...@ro...> wrote:

> I'm sure you could convert it to a soundfont somehow or other, if you
> wanted to spend some time learning about Swami or Smurf or whatever the
> soundfont editor is called now,

I gave that a try a couple of months ago.  Upon noticing that I rather  
like the sound of my fingers tapping on whatever random objects they find,  
I decided maybe I should make my own soundfont.  After an hour and a half,  
I came to the conclusion that they really aren't kidding when they say  
that whatever it's called is a work in progress.  They're doesn't appear  
to actually be a way to do anything useful with it at all.  It seems you  
can look at the structure of a soundfont, but as for actually creating  
one, it took me a while to figure out how to create the structures for a  
simple rhythm pattern, and then I think I gave up upon tring to figure out  
how to import a sample as I believe that didn't work.

I then went after the official soundfont documentation, figuring I could  
just toss together some Perl scripts to create what I want, but that  
documentation is terribly incomprehensible.