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diff --git a/audio/unsf/README b/audio/unsf/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..38c97db2a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/unsf/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +unsf (converts SoundFont .sf2 files into GUS-type instrument patches) + +UnSF is a tool to convert SoundFont (sf2) files into GUS patches. libunsf +is a library that is used by UnSF. + +Some reasons you might want to do such a thing are: + + - Your MIDI player can use GUS patches but doesn't know how to read + soundfonts. + + - You want a convenient way of substituting patches or reassigning + banks of instruments by editing GUS config files. + + - You need to modify patches by changing amplitude, stripping + envelopes, or make other changes that can easily be done by attaching + options in config files. + +Note: the set of patches created by unsf will be quite a bit larger +that the original .sf2 file. As an example, FluidR3_GM.sf2 (from +fluid-soundfont) is a 142MB file, and it converts to almost 2GB of patches +(size increased by a factor of 13.5). |