[Freepats] has `cheating' been considered?

[Mark Constable]

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 01:58, Jonas Koelker wrote:
> I've been lurking on the list for a while.

Welcome Jonas, always good to see someone new pop up on the list.

> ...
> Whenever you have sound for a particular kind of instrument (say, an alto
> saxophone), reuse that sound for *all* types of that instrument (baritone,
> tenor, alto, soprano), and mark all the non-alto as "cheats" (think symlink).
> 
> I'm predicting that at least some of you are, shall we say, quite displeased
> at the thought of it, but hear me out.  My main argument is that slightly(*)
> wrong sound is better than no sound.

I'd go along with "some sound is better than no sound" argument.

Actually, as far as using Timidity and the freepat GUSpats are concerned
(well, that is all there is right now because there is no related sf2
soundfont yet) that is the purpose of crude.cfg and I think it more or
less does what you suggest.

 http://freepats.opensrc.org/freepats/crude.cfg

Perhaps if you try the above called from timidity.cfg and see if it
indeed provides some missing instruments ?

We are always looking for any hints or suggestions to improve the very
basic freepats distribution... ie; implied is that crude.cfg could
perhaps be called "cheat.cfg"... or perhaps just a mention somewhere
in the non-existant docs explaining what crude.cfg is for :-)

--markc