Beta testing required for FluidR3 mono soundfont
The exisiting version of Fluid R3 contains stereo samples hardcoded with panning information which means that proper pan control is impossible from the mixer.
I have now produced a mono version of Fluid R3 which needs putting though its paces in beta before it is fit to be added to a stable release.
The new soundfont is available for download from my Github repository here:-
https://github.com/ChurchOrganist/MuseScore/tree/bfeb2da03a9f6b51604e13…
Please report any issues/errors/inconsistencies in it's issue tracker entry #24019: Fluidsynth requires pan modulator to be set to 100% to allow panning to extreme left and right
This is a duplicate of a post in Technology preview: http://musescore.org/en/node/25021
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Downloading. I don't suppose this version addresses the issue with the noise at the beginning of some samples that leads to loud pops once compressed? I don't know what I'm listening in the uncompressed version.
In reply to Downloading. I don't suppose by Marc Sabatella
The issue is actually within the decoding algorithm in libsndfile - we're waiting for them to release version 1.0.26 which for some reason still only exists in a prerelease version.
Once that has has happened pops and clicks will disappear.
In reply to The issue is actually within by ChurchOrganist
Are we still believing 1.0.26 will be released in time?
I thought the issue was a flaw in the soundfont itself that was being magnified by libsndfile. I have a "special" version of Fluid I've been using where someone compressed (in the audio sense, not data sense) the samples themselves and it works fine.
BTW, I'm struggling to figure out how to actually download the file from your repo. I'm not expert enough at Git to know how to do that. Is there a way to get a direct link? If not, I don't suppose you could put this on Dropbox or something?k?
In reply to Are we still believing 1.0.26 by Marc Sabatella
No the issue is in the decoding algorithm.
However, if the samples are attenuated by 5% then the issue is solved, but the downside is that the dynamic range of the soundfont is reduced as well.
I will prepare an attenuated version in case libsndfile 1.0.26 isn't released in time, but this is not an ideal solution.
To download just right-click the file and choose "Save link as" - that's in Firefox there should be equivalent options from the context menu in Internet Exploder and Chrome - if you're using something more exotic than that - who knows!
In reply to No the issue is in the by ChurchOrganist
Here is a direct link to the file https://github.com/ChurchOrganist/MuseScore/raw/bfeb2da03a9f6b51604e136…
In reply to No the issue is in the by ChurchOrganist
This is still not working for me - not with right click, not with the direct link. I get either a 35KB chunk of HTML or else an empty file. I understand how to download links normally, but it seems GitHub does something special here so as to not deliver the file normally.
Has anyone succeeded with this file?
In reply to This is still not working for by Marc Sabatella
Not that I'm interested in downloading it, but I can't see how to do it either, and I download things for my job. I also get a blank SF2 file, or HTML. When inside the GIT respository from Michael's original post I see no way to download it.
In reply to Not that I'm interested in by schepers
Aargh! Github is indeed screwing up the download!
I will upload to my dropbox account and post the link here.
It has emerged that trying to download from my Github repository results in a corrupted file.
Here is a link to the soundfont at Dropbox:-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/46bjuuw13tlo44c/Fluid%20R3-MonoGM2-6beta.zip