Re: Midi questions

On Tuesday, January 19, 2010, Ladislav Slezak wrote:
> On 17.12.2009 17:16, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> >> copy your .SF2 files into the /usr/share/sounds/sf2 directory, and write
> >> the name of your preferred one in the configuration file
> >> /etc/sysconfig/sound following the key name SOUNDFONT-FILES.
> >
> > If you want a GUI tool for this task:
> > YaST2->System->/etc/sysconfig Editor->
> > Hardware->Soundcard->SOUNDFONT_FILES.
>
> Or use "Others" -> "Install SoundFonts" in yast sound card module.
> It copies SoundFonts from the driver CD and installs them automatically.

Nice. I don't have an Audigy/Live/AWE card. I suppose that this option is 
hidden for any other soundcard models, right?

Anyway, there are more SoundFonts available out there in addition to those  
provided by the manufacturer driver CD. For instance, GeneralUser by 
Christian S.Collins or the collections listed in http://hammersound.net . 
Is it possible to install and configure them using yast?

And what about soft-synths like FluidSynth to render MIDI events, needed by 
owners of simple sound cards like the integrated devices in most laptops and 
cheap PCs? 

But looks like the original poster could configure his Audigy already, and he  
is now struggling with distorted sound output. Probably because he is using 
PulseAudio and the defaults don't work well for his system. It would be nice 
to have a yast module to configure PulseAudio's /etc/pulse/daemon.conf  
and /etc/security/limits.conf 

For my Intel HDA integrated soundcard (asus laptop), these are the working 
values that I needed to change:

* File: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
realtime-scheduling = yes
realtime-priority = 5
default-sample-rate = 48000
default-fragments = 6
default-fragment-size-msec = 48

* File: /etc/security/limits.conf (my userid is a member of the audio group).
@audio         -       rtprio          70
@audio         -       memlock         unlimited
@audio         -       nice            -20

Regards,
Pedro