[Freepats] Stereo wavetables support for sfubar

[Mark Constable]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 05:58, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
> Note: There appears to be some problems with the list currently.
> It will be fixed when Mark wakes up :-)

I've made a change and simply removed the "lists" part
from the mailman config files. It might work now, this
message will test it out.

> If you have sent a message and bounced, please wait a few hours
> and try again (or try to post to freepats at opensrc.org in meantime).

Yes, freepats at lists.opensrc.org was an unknown email
address. Some general comments about high quality samples.

IMVHO GUS pats should no longer be used for modern patch
sets because the format is just too old and surpassed by
the sf2 soundfont spec. The latest Creative X-Fi cards
(which do not yet have ALSA drivers) use 24 bit / 96 Khtz
soundfont samples (maybe they're 48 Khtz?) so there is
some "reference" hardware out there that uses very high
quality soundfont compatible samples.

Timidity is the most common GUSpat compatible software
player and it also loads sf2 soundfonts so the need, these
days, for GUSpats is almost non-existent.

The point about high quality ORIGINAL samples is so that
various soundfonts (hopefully GM/GS compatible) can be
rendered from the original 24/96 wav/flac files.

. Professional GM/GS set 24/96 version (~1Gb -> 2Gb)

. High quality GM/GS set 16/48 version (~500Mb)

. Medium quality GM 16/48 (less layers) (< 100Mb)

. Low quality 16/22.5 ~GM (less layers) (~20Mb)

The last being what open source distros would package
and include by default with documentation pointing to
the higher quality versions. The High and Medium quality
versions could be used in SBlive cards and the Professional
version would require a specially hacked Timidity,
fluidsynth, or perhaps LinuxSampler, to load it (and
2 plus gigabytes of ram).

--markc