No, you do not. The soundfont opcodes in Csound load soundfont files into the regular computer memory.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Robson Cozendey 
Sent: Sep 10, 2005 5:31 PM
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Piano instrument

Just a question: I need a soundcard like SoundBlasterLive to run CSound with 
soundfonts? Please, answer me or I will buy the soundcard this week :)

Thanks in advance,
Robson


>From: "Robson Cozendey" 
>Reply-To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Csnd] Piano instrument
>Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:21:35 +0000
>
>Thanks Istvan, your answers are always right to the point!
>I confess that I´m in the user level well rather than the developer level 
>:), so I wonder does anyone have a .orc , .sco and .sf2 already tested 
>files working? If by luck does anyone have one, let me know, I´m kind of 
>lost why "sfplay" keeps its silence with my sf2 file :)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Robson
>
>>From: Istvan Varga 
>>Reply-To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>Subject: Re: [Csnd] Piano instrument
>>Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:36:31 +0200
>>
>>The fluid opcodes are not included with my release of Csound,
>>because I do not have the fluidsynth library for Windows (I may
>>try building it, though). The other Csound 5 package by Michael
>>Gogins does include fluid (as well as many other) opcodes, but
>>it is built from older sources, and does not have single precision
>>binaries.
>>
>>Robson Cozendey wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you, Istvan!
>>>It worked for the "sf" soundfont family opcodes, but not for the "fluid" 
>>>family of opcodes, and now I´m getting the same error "no legal opcode", 
>>>even if I set the OPCODEDIR and OPCODEDIR64 to "lib" and "lib64". Any 
>>>idea about that?
>>>
>>>here is the error for "fluidLoad":
>>>"error:  no legal opcode, line 11:
>>>fluidLoad "steinway.sf2", ienginenum"
>>>
>>>ps1: Steven, that "Steinway Grand Piano.SF2" file that you use in the 
>>>documentation example for "fluidEngine" is available on the net?
>>>
>>>ps2: I went far enough with "sf" opcodes to where all work, list and 
>>>assign presets, but the "sfplay" produces no sound, I don´t know if the 
>>>error is the SF2 file
>>>
>>>ps3: btw, anybody know what´s the soundfont opcodes which Csound will 
>>>make standard in the future? the "sf" or the "fluid" family of opcodes? 
>>>the fluid apparently have more resources and documentation examples.
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