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NOTE: You may need to empty your browser cache to see the current software
update information in the table below. Documentation is included.
If you are having problems with the font, please visit the
FAQ page.
If you find a bug or you would like to request a feature,
please visit the corresponding software reports page:
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User Manuals and Additional Files
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Tonal Plexus
Tuning Box
- TBX1UserManual.pdf
(2.8 MB, Updated January 1, 2009)
- TBX1FactoryPresets.pdf
A list of files in the .cse format containing all of the tunings which are preloaded onto TBX1.
(59.7 KB, Updated January 1, 2009)
- TBX1FactoryScalaFiles.pdf
A list of files in the Scala format containing most of the tunings which are preloaded onto TBX1.
(56 KB, Updated January 1, 2009)
- TBX1 Tuning Box Factory Preset .scl and .cse files
(all platforms 172 KB Zip Archive, updated October 10, 2008)
- TBX1 Turkish / Arabic Maqam .scl and .cse files,
tunings prepared by Turkish microtonal musicologist
Ozan Yarman, Ph.D. (all platforms 16 KB Zip Archive, updated January 1, 2009)
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Sound Fonts
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Some Archived Quality Free Sound Fonts (all platforms, public domain)
Links to More Quality Free Sound Fonts (all platforms, links open new pages, some files may require
sfArk)
Sound Font Archives (see Sound Font Facts below)
Convert Your Sample Libraries to Sound Fonts
- Mac and Windows: Translator from Chicken Systems.
(commercial)
Create Your Own Sound Fonts (from scratch)
Sound Font Facts
- Sound font is an
open
standard sample set format, trademarked by E-mu and maintained by
Creative Labs.
- There are sound font formats other than .sf2 which are not compatible with H-Pi software.
- Some sound fonts are multi-timbral and others are monotimbral.
- Some sound fonts leave MIDI channel 10 blank and others do not.
- Some sound fonts limit the MIDI note range, for example, 88 MIDI notes instead of 127
in a piano patch.
- A common problem with public domain sound fonts is tuning, particularly where samples loop.
- Mac users - although all .sf2 soundfonts are compatible with
the Apple DLS Synthesizer, some soundfont files on the internet are compressed using a
utility called SFPack, which is not available for Mac. Look for the .sf2 extension on the
file, or for .zip or .rar extensions; these should all open without problems, although
sometimes these files have been encoded to open only on Windows. If you see a sfArk
indication, most but not all of those files will decompress using the
sfArk utility for Mac OSX.
- Learn more about sound fonts at Wikipedia.
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MegaStaff Manuscript Paper
Here is free MegaStaff manuscript paper in various sizes and layouts,
in pdf format. Please note the following:
- The staves will look wrong when viewed on the screen.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader does not print the staves correctly:
- Mac users should use Apple's Preview application to get correct results.
- PC users should use something like
pdf995.
Printing Instructions:
- Open the file in Preview (mac) or other non-Acrobat application (PC).
- Go to Print Setup
- Choose the correct paper size (make sure it agrees with the file name)
- Choose Portrait orientation (this may not agree with the file name)
- Choose 100% scale
- Print
Printing the files at the incorrect orientation or scaling will result in errors.
Some scalings work OK while others will print lines spaced unequally or with incorrect
thicknesses.
Download all pdf files as a zip archive:
Download an individual sheet as a pdf (NOTE: staves will look wrong when viewed on-screen,
and will not print properly from Adobe Acrobat Reader, see above for printing
instructions):
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Free Books on Tuning
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