[Freepats] Re: future .sf2s weigths

[Roberto Gordo Saez]

On 4/28/06, Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> wrote:
> /mnt/hda1/samples/piano-steinway-IOWA# du -h P*
> 6,3M    Piano.pp.A2.aiff
> 848K    Piano.pp.A2.flac
>
> :-D
>
> I am happy with all of these things

They are compressed very well. I suppose it is because they are
acoustically simple (one note), they contain silences, and stereo
channels are very similar, flac does a great job with them.

>         I think that when the samples will be into the "sf2" stage, the piano
> will be too big for almost any machine... Qsynth behavioral was too
> slow when I used soundfonts bigger than 30mb on a 128mb PC (now i have
> 384mb, but I did not tried again).

My main computer is a PII at 400Mhz, with 224 MB RAM. I have problems
using soundfonts bigger than 4 MB :-)
But it is completely passive cooled with no fans at all, the main
reason for which I have not changed it.

>         I think that (when the licence issue could be clear) I should make
> little, medium and big .sf2 files... but I am just supposing, I will
> have to test all of these things.

Yes, I think most GNU/Linux distributions would not want to include an
almost 2GB piano soundfont... just imagine the size of the whole
general midi soundfont ;-)

Anyways, it is always good to have an archive with the full material,
maybe future consumer computers will be able to use them in full.