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 Guitar Pro's 'soundfont' in TuxGuitar?
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Sord
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Mar 9th 2009 at 4:46 PM |
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Hi,
first of all I want to thank everyone involved in the development of TuxGuitar for this excellent program.
I've been using it for my musical projects for months now and my copy of Guitar Pro 5 disappeared in a drawer. ;)
The musicians I work with don't use Linux, though, and it's sometimes a disadvantage that we don't have the same soundfonts.
So what I want to ask is if there's a way to get the sounds of Guitar Pro on Windows for my Linux.
Which midi soundfont, if it is one, does Guitar Pro use there? Is it a free one and can I get it as a soundfont somewhere?
I'm sorry if that's a stupid question, I don't know much about that..
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daseinhorn
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Apr 7th 2009 at 8:16 PM |
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I do not believe that Guitar Pro has soundfonts; it creates a connection to a midi synthetizer within Windows. I personally use Fluidsynth (http://www.nongnu.org/fluid/) and a soundfont called 8MBGMSFX.SF2 (http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/sound-fonts/8MBGMSFX.SF2), which is of great quality. Once you have downloaded both, use a console to load the font (fluidsynth /path/to/8MBGMSFX.SF2). This will create a new option for you, which you can add in the Tuxguitar options (in my case: synth input port (22566:0) [128:0]. Give it a shot if you feel like it
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Sord
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Apr 17th 2009 at 5:11 PM |
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Thank you for your hints. :)
I know how to use soundfonts (and personally use SGM after having tried many others, Fluidsynth among them), but what I wanted to know was if there's a font with the same sounds as those which Guitar Pro uses on Windows.
The synthesizer that it uses must have some way of storing its sounds, too, and so I hoped there might be a soundfont which I can use on Linux which sounds (more or less) exactly like the Windows MIDI.
I hope I expressed my question better now, and thanks again for your help.
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Julian
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Apr 17th 2009 at 6:07 PM |
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Well,
At first RSE don't read .sf2 file formats.. so if you get the sounds, you need to make your soundfont with them.
the second thing, is that it seems to apply effects on real time, i mean there are no "distortion sounds", these are clean guitar sounds and have an audio effect that apply the distortion. so with these sounds you maybe should use DSSI samples or something like. to be able to apply the effects.
or manually apply them with any audio editor to have the new instrument sounds.
Because i don't know the legal terms, i'll not say how to extract these sounds.
but you can search yourself on google how to extract the file extensions that are on rse folder. (see by size.. other files are just for info)
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Sord
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Apr 29th 2009 at 3:18 PM |
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Hello, thanks a lot again,
but what you describe refers to the RSE, so the 'Realistic Sound Engine' of Guitar Pro, doesn't it?
What I meant was the MIDI sounds that you hear when RSE is deactivated in Guitar Pro.
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Julian
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Apr 29th 2009 at 6:52 PM |
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So you talk about your windows MIDI device.
it's difficult say what device do you have, because it's a sound driver dependant.
but if you don't have a hardware MIDI card (allmost people don't have) you sould have the default windows synth.
it reads .dls files (downloadable sounds).
don't remember the real path of it.. just make a search of "gm.dls" on your windows, this is the file that it uses.
Gervill synthesizer can open it, not sure if timidity or fluidsynth can.
If you use openJdk, you should be able to have gervill
or if you use a sun jdk, you can manually install it.
then, you can select it on tuxguitar as midi port, and configure gervill at Tools -> Plugins : Java Sound api plugin to use gm.dls as custom soundbank.
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Sord
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May 19th 2009 at 3:44 PM |
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Thank you so much, that was exactly what I wanted! :)
In case somebody else is interested: You can find gm.dls in Windows/system32/drivers.
I'm using Gervill now and it works perfectly.
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Ulukai
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Jul 30th 2009 at 12:29 PM |
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Have you also found the gmreadme.txt in the same windows directory which contains the following...?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
GMREADME.TXT
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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The GM.DLS file contains the Roland SoundCanvas Sound Set which is
protected under the following copyright:
Roland GS Sound Set/Microsoft (P) 1996 Roland Corporation U.S.
The Roland SoundCanvas Sound Set is licensed under Microsoft's
End User License Agreement for use with Microsoft operating
system products only. All other uses require a separate written
license from Roland.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
However, it is nice to know that it's compatible with Gervill :-)
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