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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > > > Are the patches larger or smaller than the source code?  How big are they?
> > >
> > >    Up to 20 MB.   I said BIG !
> >
> > >     But I could set up a smaller selection, they just wouldn't sound as
> > > good.  say 4 - 7 MB ?

What exactly is a patch, does it have to be 128 instruments?  I think it 
was derived from the use of patch cords in a Moog synthesizer.

> > What instruments are included in the patches?  Could you limit it to just
> > ordinary orchestral instruments (no more than 20 of them)?
>
>    I could, but then it would make so many of the really good MIDIs sound 
> awful and as a musician I can't bring myself to do that.

Could I myself reduce the size of the 'patch' by deleting anything not 
used in an orchestra or symphony band?

> > The .sbk and .sf2 files I have contain about 128 'instruments' (marimba,
> > celeste, and many things I never heard of)
>
>    These instruments are used in jazz and also in Latin stuff.

There are lots more that I never even heard of, sound effects, etc.

> > Could you choose just ONE piano, one harpsichord, four strings, flute,
> > piccolo, trumpet, trombone, horn, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, kettle drums,
> > snare drums (and whatever else I forgot) and make that one patch, or does
> > it not work that way?

>    No, it doesn't work like that.  If you don't have a patch for the 
> instrument specified in the MIDI, then that track will be silent.

A patch is one instrument and your package has 128 of them?
Can you (as with playmidi -p) specify which instrument to use for each 
track and substitute one piano sound for another?

>    As it happens, I am currently in the middle of uploading the 
> completed package to: http://www.ausreg.com/bl/bl3

>    Warning - it is still a big file, even though I have included only 
> one 128-instrument set of patches, with timidity pre-configured to use 
> those patches, but it isn't possible to use timidity properly without 
> them.  File size: timidity_bl3.tgz 8595191 (8.2 MB).

I need to make BL3 partition bigger before adding sound.  Can I run it in 
BL2 (with libc.so.5 and libm.so.5 added)?  Do I add anything other than 
the sound modules for my sound card (sb)?

>    If anyone has the patience to download it, can you tell us if it 
> installs properly - I don't have a test-bed version of BL3 anymore.


> Regards,
>         Ron
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