Sbl-soundfonts: soundfont midi lib for sound blaster live

Question

Something I needed for midi tests of my sound blaster live card.
The first soundfont file was suggested as the best general soundfont library available for free (8MB). The second is from my sb live install cd (4MB). If you only want the first one remove second source file and second md5sum. You will need asfxload from awesfx package (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=77155) to load the library.
More info and soundfont libraries are available at:
http://www.linux.com/howtos/MIDI-HOWTO-10.shtml
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/index4.html
http://www.synthzone.com/soundfont.htm
http://alive.singnet.com.sg/musician/
http://listen.to/sblive
http://www.indezine.com/products/sound/soundfonts.html
http://www.soundfont.com/
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=asfxload
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page= … ntHandling
pkgname=sbl-soundfonts
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="SoundFonts files for SoundBlaster Live!"
url="http://www.creative.com"
depends=('awesfx')
source=(http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/sound-fonts/8MBGMSFX.SF2 CT4MGM.SF2)
md5sums=('568ddfaa56db2bb45fc96e28dcc711ad' '1652dfbefe914bdb8dc03afc0c76f619')
build() {
cd $startdir/src
install -d -m755 $startdir/pkg/usr/share/soundfonts
install -m644 *.SF2 $startdir/pkg/usr/share/soundfonts

Answer 1

I recently answered about the same question:
If you?use Vista or Windows7, then there is no official driver. You can only use alternati've drivers like Vista Support Pack by Daniel_K or the one from KXProject (better). But if you have more than 2 gigs of memory installed or an x64 OS, then both drivers will be half-working (as far as I remember, Daniel's driver won't work with more than 2 Gb of memory installed in any OS, and with KX-driver there will only be a problem with MIDI playback with more than 2 Gb AND x64 Win7).