How To Install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 10.
What is musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
musescore-general-soundfont-lossless is:
This is the new standard soundfont as shipped with MuseScore 2.2 and newer, in uncompressed SF2 format. It is significantly larger than the SF3 in the musescore-general-soundfont Debian package but identical, other than not compressing the samples with a lossy algorithm. This avoids audible Vorbis compression artefacts and the excessively long MuseScore startup time with compressed soundfonts.
MuseScore_General provides the complete GM (General MIDI) sound set and some extras, with a focus on improving quality. The SF3 versions attempt to keep the installed-size footprint low, at the cost mentioned above.
There is also a musescore-general-soundfont-small package in SF3 format which also avoids the long startup times by using less and smaller samples; it has a very small installed size, while being a drop-in replacement.
The SF2 soundfont can be used with almost all MIDI synthesisers, although bugs in early implementations (e.g. MuseScore before 2.2) may cause sound degradation.
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.
This package will be installed into /usr/share/sounds/sf2/ which is the standard Debian location for system-wide SF2 soundfonts.
There are three methods to install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 10. 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-lossless 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-lossless using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
Install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
Install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
How To Uninstall musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 10
To uninstall only the musescore-general-soundfont-lossless package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
Uninstall musescore-general-soundfont-lossless And Its Dependencies
To uninstall musescore-general-soundfont-lossless and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
Remove musescore-general-soundfont-lossless Configurations and Data
To remove musescore-general-soundfont-lossless configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
Remove musescore-general-soundfont-lossless configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove musescore-general-soundfont-lossless configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge musescore-general-soundfont-lossless
Dependencies
musescore-general-soundfont-lossless have the following dependencies:
References
- musescore-general-soundfont-lossless website
- musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on packages.debian.org
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.