Re: [fluid-dev] Support for SF4 (FLAC) format?

[Reinhold Hoffmann]

Hi Marcus,

> Very interesting, thanks for explaining your use-case. How did you
> test the converted SF4 files? Did you patch fluidsynth to allow FLAC
> decompression? Or did you use a different synth?

I used the sf2convert tool and converted the SF2 soundfont to SF3 and SF4
and compared the file sizes to the original SF2 file.
Only for the SF3 file I was able to check the sound quality with our
software which uses the libfluidsynth library. The sound quality of the SF4
file I did not check. Sorry, in case my comment was misleading. 

Best regards,

Reinhold  

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: fluid-dev [mailto:fluid-dev-bounces+reinhold=address@hidden]
Im Auftrag von Marcus Weseloh
Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. Januar 2020 15:58
An: FluidSynth mailing list
Betreff: Re: [fluid-dev] Support for SF4 (FLAC) format?

Hi Reinhold,

Am So., 19. Jan. 2020 um 12:38 Uhr schrieb Reinhold Hoffmann
<address@hidden>:
> I tried a brief test converting various publicly available SF2 soundfont
> files to SF3 and SF4 format. The outcome was somehow disillusioning.
> Cracking and noises were created, but may be my fault that I did not use
the
> tool correctly or may be the used SF2 source files were not adequate
enough
> to be compressed.

Very interesting, thanks for explaining your use-case. How did you
test the converted SF4 files? Did you patch fluidsynth to allow FLAC
decompression? Or did you use a different synth?

> My conclusion for us: SF3 needs to stay and SF4 could be an option but
only
> in case if there are good quality SF4 soundfont files available in the
> future.

It is not about removing ogg support in favour of flac, but rather
adding flac as an additional compression choice next to ogg vorbis. So
don't worry, SF3 is here to stay.

Cheers
Marcus

_______________________________________________
fluid-dev mailing list
address@hidden
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev