Yep, soundfonts are actually well supported under Linux, both through hardware (sb-live etc) and through software, Fluidsynth, Timidity,etc. MusE has integrated support for Fluidsynth which means all loading/saving of patch information etc is stored in the song-file making it very easy to use.
I'm sorry that you feel you have been ignored, I like to think this isn't so. Please remember these things take time, we are not able to work full time on this project.
As for the current MusE running only with Jack, we have received numerous requests to bring back the standalone mode. And believe me, we take it seriously. But for 0.7.0 it was just not an option to put it back in. Nothing has been decided but I would think there is a strong chance it'll be back in one of the coming point releases.
As for the PPC problem, the one "dangling" problem I can remember is that MusE supposedly no longer starts under PPC/Linux. I'll freely admit that I don't have much clues to what this problem is but I did send a request to try a small patch so I do think I atleast tried. The message is here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg _id=8614229
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soundfonts are actually well supported under Linux, both through hardware (sb-live etc) and through software, Fluidsynth, Timidity,etc. MusE has integrated support for Fluidsynth which means all loading/saving of patch information etc is stored in the song-file making it very easy to use.
I'm sorry that you feel you have been ignored, I like to think this isn't so.
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Please remember these things take time, we are not able to work full time on this project.
As for the current MusE running only with Jack, we have received numerous requests to bring back the standalone mode. And believe me, we take it seriously. But for 0.7.0 it was just not an option to put it back in. Nothing has been decided but I would think there is a strong chance it'll be back in one of the coming point releases.
As for the PPC problem, the one "dangling" problem I can remember is that MusE supposedly no longer starts under PPC/Linux. I'll freely admit that I don't have much clues to what this problem is but I did send a request to try a small patch so I do think I atleast tried.
The message is here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?ms
Indeed it does, through the internal fluidsynth softsynth, nicely and integrated.
However there's currently no integrated support for soundfonts loaded on the card itself. Loading the soundfonts manually would work just fine though.
It works through the wonders of the beautiful projects Wine and libfst. So, basically all your favourite plugs are compatible.
Though this technology is still quite young, your milage will vary (it works better than expected though). Eventually all plugs will work!