
(If you're very short on CPU power, forget it.) You may find you have to run it as root or else the pitch goes awry, particularly on laptops with variable-speed CPUs.Īnyway, when fluidsynth is running you should be able to assign tracks to it in Rosegarden. If you're relatively short on CPU power, also give it “-R no” to turn off reverb and you'll get a bit more polyphony before it breaks up. Alternatively get hold of qsynth which provides a nice GUI for fluidsynth. Or equivalent for whichever soundfont you want to use. Then find a soundfont: one reasonable GM example is Musica Theoria 2, available as mustheory2.sf2 from the Collections area of Hammersound, although it's large and it's packed using some stupid Windows-only format (common problem – a few of the soundfonts on there are only zipped, though, so have a look around).
2GMGSMT SF2 HOW TO
Well first, here's how to get fluidsynth working with a soundfont. Rosegarden apparently saves in a binary format, where can I find the format definition ? See also docs/howtos/i18n.txt in SVN if you are interested in the technical aspects of translation. You may look at the wiki page dedicated to adding or updating translation. If you can help out with translating musical or technical documentation (no programming required, but it's quite hard work), please let us know! We have had real trouble attracting and keeping translators, and the most complete translations are usually updated by Rosegarden developers who have to double as translators on top of their other responsibilities. These translations are provided and maintained by volunteer contributors, and most contributors tend to come and go pretty randomly. Translations for several other languages exist in various states of disrepair, with German tending to be toward the more complete end of the spectrum, and Welsh at rock bottom with no updates since before Rosegarden 1.0 was released. Translations for Czech, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, and Russian are usually substantially complete. Fully complete translations are usually provided for British English, Finnish, French, Japanese and Spanish with each public release.
