Comment 10 for bug 196135

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Markus Schulz <email address hidden> wrote:
> But we could also have two alphabets (true type font files) in English;
> one with all 26 letters and one without, lets say, 5 letters. By default
> we install only the 21 letter alphabet. Now we save some HD space. Most
> intelligent people will still be able to guess most of the text files
> they read. But it is not really useful, because it will not show the
> text like the author intended... If you want to compete with Windows you
> should be able to play a midi file right out of the box and in the same
> quality. But at lest play the files with all sounds. Maybe freepats
> needs some files form fluid to make it complete?

At the moment gstreamer-midi doesn't support sf2 files. I'm unsure
whether there is work going on to enable that; or to allow it to talk
to other synthesisers. I have my own ideas as to how synthesis should
work (and work well), but I'm currently snowed under by schoolwork, so
I'm not going to get people's hopes up.

You may have noticed that in Hardy, you can just play midi files out
of the box. They don't sound great (freepats), but it's a big
improvement on previous versions.