Re: [fluid-dev] Unpacking GM soundfont

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Sebastien Frippiat wrote:

> > Not really a FluidSynth question, but.. ;)
> >
> > You need the unzip utility, which is not the same as the gunzip  
> > utility. In other words gzip is not Zip.  Hopefully there isn't  
> > any nasty compression surprises waiting inside, like sfpack or sfark.

Josh

Thanks!! Worked like a charm :-)

> I guess that either replacing Musica_Theoria_v2_(GM)_sf2.zip by  
> "Musica_Theoria_v2_(GM)_sf2.zip" (use quotes) or renaming the file  
> for it not to have any '(' or ')' in it could also help.

Sebastien

Right! Renaming the unpacked soundfont to "Musica_Theoria.sf2" also  
helps for loading it into fluidsynth.

Many thanks.
Ebrahim