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Description: Debian uses another sound font as upstream
Origin: vendor
Forwarded: no
Author: Helmar Gerloni <helmar@gerloni.net>
Last-Update: 2025-11-02
--- a/desktop/TuxGuitar/share/help/detail_composition_track.html
+++ b/desktop/TuxGuitar/share/help/detail_composition_track.html
@@ -99,7 +99,13 @@
<h4>Instruments</h4>
<p>From the Properties dialog you can open the Instruments settings shown below:</p>
<img src="images/track_properties_instruments.png" />
- <p>Here you set up the sound that your tracks will play back from your soundbank. TuxGuitar comes with its own soundbank called "Magic Sound Font 2.0", but you can use others as well. Most soundbanks have a plethora of sounds which go far beyond just guitars, so be as creative as you want.</p>
+ <p>Here you set up the sound that your tracks will play back from your soundbank.</p>
+ <p>Since the original TuxGuitar soundbank "Magic Sound Font 2.0" cannot be shipped with Debian due to its unclear license, the package from the official Debian repository uses the "Fluid General MIDI Sound Font" from the package fluid-soundfont-gm (file /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2). If you prefer to use the original soundfont, you can extract the file MagicSFver2.sf2 from the original TuxGuitar sources on Github or download it from the Internet Archive:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar/releases/</b></li>
+ <li><b>https://archive.org/download/free-soundfonts-sf2-2019-04/</b></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>But you can use other soundbanks as well. Most soundbanks have a plethora of sounds which go far beyond just guitars, so be as creative as you want.</p>
<p>You can check "Percussion Channel" to have it play drum sounds if you wish to include them in the tabs. Furthermore, you can adjust the volume and balance of the instruments or add effects like reverb and chorus.</p>
<h4>Tuning</h4>
<p>Using the dropdown lists under <strong>Presets</strong>, you can select your stringed instrument, the number of strings and the tuning of the instrument from a range of predefined tunings.</p>
--- a/desktop/TuxGuitar/share/help/start_first_steps.html
+++ b/desktop/TuxGuitar/share/help/start_first_steps.html
@@ -68,7 +68,13 @@
<h3>Instrument settings</h3>
<p>From the Properties dialog you can open the Instruments settings shown below:</p>
<img src="images/track_properties_instruments.png" />
- <p>Here you set up the sound that your tracks will play back from your soundbank. A soundbank is a file that contains sound samples for all the required instruments. TuxGuitar comes with its own soundbank called "Magic Sound Font 2.0", but you can use others as well. Most soundbanks have a plethora of sounds which go far beyond just guitars, so be as creative as you want.</p>
+ <p>Here you set up the sound that your tracks will play back from your soundbank. A soundbank is a file that contains sound samples for all the required instruments.</p>
+ <p>Since the original TuxGuitar soundbank "Magic Sound Font 2.0" cannot be shipped with Debian due to its unclear license, the package from the official Debian repository uses the "Fluid General MIDI Sound Font" from the package fluid-soundfont-gm (file /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2). If you prefer to use the original soundfont, you can extract the file MagicSFver2.sf2 from the original TuxGuitar sources on Github or download it from the Internet Archive:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar/releases/</b></li>
+ <li><b>https://archive.org/download/free-soundfonts-sf2-2019-04/</b></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>But you can use other soundbanks as well. Most soundbanks have a plethora of sounds which go far beyond just guitars, so be as creative as you want.</p>
<p>You can check <strong>Percussion Channel</strong> to play drum sounds if you wish to include them in the tabs. Furthermore, you can adjust the volume and balance of the instruments or add effects like reverb and chorus.</p>
<h3>Tuning</h3>
<p>This one is pretty self-explanatory. You can select your stringed instrument, the number of strings on it (i.e., 4 if you're a bass player, 3 if you play in the band <i>The Presidents of The United States of America</i>) and the tuning of the instrument in case you use alternate tunings. It is important that you specify the correct tuning, otherwise the actual score staff of your tabs will be inaccurate, and nobody wants that.</p>
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