How To Install musescore-general-soundfont-small on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont-small on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is musescore-general-soundfont-small
musescore-general-soundfont-small is:
This is the new standard hard disc space-saving SF3 format soundfont as shipped with MuseScore 2.2 and newer.
This release of the soundfont supports Single-Note Dynamics with MuseScore 3.2 and higher.
MuseScore_General attempts to keep the installed-size footprint low while providing the complete GM (General MIDI) sound set and some extras; were it not for the new pianos, it would even be smaller than its antecessor fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont despite restoring stereo samples for some instruments and the new focus on quality, thanks to numerous optimisations and bugfixes.
It can be used with most modern MIDI synthesisers which support the SF3 format, although early implementations (such as the one from MuseScore before release 2.2) had bugs making the resulting sound bad; instead use fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont for those.
As it comes under the MIT licence, it can be used in most settings, but do remember that waveforms generated using this soundfont are “copies or substantial portions of the” soundfont.
The musescore-general-soundfont-small package contains the normal soundfont (as shipped with MuseScore 3.x), lossily SF3 compressed. The musescore-general-soundfont package similarly provides the HQ version of the soundfont (with separate ensembles instruments and other large improvements) as SF3, whereas the SF2 HQ version is packaged as musescore-general-soundfont-lossless for use with synthesisers lacking SF3 support, by audiophiles, and to avoid long MuseScore startup times; however with a large disc footprint.
This package will be installed into /usr/share/sounds/sf3/ which is the standard Debian location for system-wide SF3 soundfonts. Task: ubuntustudio-audio
There are three methods to install musescore-general-soundfont-small on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install musescore-general-soundfont-small Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont-small using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install musescore-general-soundfont-small
Install musescore-general-soundfont-small Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont-small using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install musescore-general-soundfont-small
Install musescore-general-soundfont-small Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont-small using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install musescore-general-soundfont-small
How To Uninstall musescore-general-soundfont-small on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the musescore-general-soundfont-small package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove musescore-general-soundfont-small
Uninstall musescore-general-soundfont-small And Its Dependencies
To uninstall musescore-general-soundfont-small and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove musescore-general-soundfont-small
Remove musescore-general-soundfont-small Configurations and Data
To remove musescore-general-soundfont-small configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge musescore-general-soundfont-small
Remove musescore-general-soundfont-small configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove musescore-general-soundfont-small configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge musescore-general-soundfont-small
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont-small package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
