[Freepats] freepats for low resource computers

[ml at distasis.com]

I've been using some of the freepats soundfonts on my Windows machine with
Timidity and am really impressed with the output of some of the high
quality sf2 files.  However, I've recently been experimenting with one of
my old laptops and running DeLi Linux.  It struck me that there's a need
for a low resource, small but still somewhat decent sounding series of
soundfonts to run on very old computer systems.  The Windows Timidity++
at Tim Brechbill's site comes with a small set of sound fonts (about 6MB)
to get people started.  I'm not sure of the licensing on it though.  Was
just thinking, it would be really nice to have a totally free and open
source licensed version of a small midi soundfont set to run with programs
like Timidity++ on low end computer systems.  Am wondering if anyone's run
across anything like that with Open Source licensing or if something could
be put together for small systems under an Open license and offered
through the Freepats web site.

Just thought I'd mention it to others on the list.  I definitely think
there's a need for a free but compact set of midi sounds.  It would also
make the resources of the freepats group available to even more computer
systems.  Anyone have any further ideas on this?


Thanks.
Laura
http://www.distasis.com/recipes/music.htm