Re: Midi questions

Ladislav Slezak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.multimedia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 19.1.2010 16:35, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 19, 2010, Ladislav Slezak wrote:
>> 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?

Oh yes, it's displayed only for AWE/Live/Audigy cards. I forgot to mention that...

> 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?

Well, in theory yes, but you would have to burn them on a CD. Yast searches
files directly on CD/DVD medium, you cannot choose a sound font file manually...

(I had a feture request for that but I had to drop it in favor of other features and
bugfixes.)


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Best Regards

Ladislav Slezák
Yast Developer
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