Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-> CA> Generally the soundfonts for sound cards are not made available for 
-> CA> downloading. Some illegal websites might have them but I've not 
-> CA> found any on corp websites.

-> Sound fonts?  Is that the actual instrument sounds that the card
-> would use?  I didn't even know that you could load these into some 
-> cards.  But then,  I'm currently only using one sound card,  and it 
-> doesn't appear to support midi functions all that well.

TW> That is strange. I thouhgt ALL sound Cards could handle MIDI files.

As I found out getting the first (and now defunct) sound card going under
linux,  the card actually contains a number of separate devices. 
Apparently the SB16 (?) I'm using now has fewer of them,  or something.

TW> But Sound Fonts are teh sound bits of instruments that are used to 
TW> build MIDI files. And is some cases they are avaialble.

That's what I would have thought.

TW> In the case of my IWill MB with a on board Sound Chip at the MB web
TW> site I had a choice of a 4 Meg or an 8 Meg file of additional sound
TW> fonts.

Hm.  More stuff to play with!  :-)

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