>>>>> "David" == David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk> writes:
David> What I should like to know is 1) how can I use drum and other David> untuned percussion sounds? 2) I notice that fluidr3_gm has David> dozens - probably hundreds - of extra sounds and instruments David> beyond the standard 128. How can I access these? 3) how can I David> use other soundfonts? There seem to be a lot of free David> soundfonts available on line, but I have no idea how I would David> use them. It would be nice to have a decent trumpet sound (the David> fluidr3-gm one is very poor), the sound of violin section as David> will as solo violin, string harmonics, timpani roll and so on. You can remap any bank/instrument in Timidity to a particular patch. In /etc/timidity.conf you can, say, improve the harpsichord by using the Ross soundfont: bank 0 6 %font ross.sf2 1 2 to replace instrument 6 in bank 0 (harpsichord) with instrument 2 in bank 1 of the ross.sf2 soundfont. There are lots of soundfonts available from http://www.personalcopy.com/ The Ross soundfont for harpsichord is from http://web.ncf.ca/bf250/my.html
