SoundFonts don't seem to do anyth

Question

Hi,
I downloaded a few soundfonts from http://www.personalcopy.com/home.htm and installed two of them. Then I played several MIDIs and didn't notice any difference. Then, just a minute ago, I tried to play the MIDI "AceOfSpy" that comes with the SB X-Fi Fatality board (it is in the 3D MIDI folder) and the song was all screwed up. I went in and deleted the installed SoundFonts from their banks and the MIDI was good as new again.
What am I missing here? I thought those custom sound fonts would make my MIDIs sound better. They didn't help at all.

Answer 1

roger,
good to see you here online too
That may be true, but "max bitrate" and "quantization
floor" cannot give you any control over the final
file size. Only the "average bitrate" can do this.
while it is frustrating when you end up with an m2v that's too big for the disc it was supposed to fit onto, my clients tend to make a bigger fuss out of blockiness and other compression artifacts
and probably the ultimate encoding is a good balance between all 3 parameters - so far however encoders seem to fall into two categories, both emphasizing a different subset of these or a different combination of these.
which works for you may then also depend on your way of looking at the problem...
Divide the file size (in bits) by the duration (in
seconds), to get the average bitrate that your
encoder generated, as opposed to what you told it to
do;-)
that's what failed for me with compressor - resulting in 5+GB discs for 1h50m of material, using the 120 minute per disc preset....
btw audio was ac3 at 192
This is why you can trust BitVice not to generate bigger files than you ask for.
still looking forward to that version 1.7 of bitvice later this week to finally see how it will do on a quad g5