How To Install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 12

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 12.

What is musescore-general-soundfont-lossless

musescore-general-soundfont-lossless is:

This is the HQ version for the new standard soundfont of MuseScore 2.2 and newer, in uncompressed SF2 format. It has a significantly larger disc footprint than its corresponding SF3, but is identical other than not compressing the samples with a lossy algorithm. This avoids audible Vorbis artefacts and the excessively long MuseScore startup time with compressed soundfonts and can be used by SF3-incompatible synthesisers.

This release of the soundfont supports Single-Note Dynamics with MuseScore 3.2 and higher.

MuseScore_General_HQ aims at providing the best audio quality and soundfont programming features, while being a compatible drop-in replacement for the less heavyweight MuseScore_General soundfont, providing the complete GM (General MIDI) sound set, with separate ensemble samples for several instruments, and some extras.

It can be used with almost all MIDI synthesisers (with SoundFont 2.01 support) although bugs in early implementations (e.g. MuseScore before version 2.2) cause sound degradation. (Install fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont which has a compatible instrument assignment for those it supports.)

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. It is sufficient to reproduce the licence and copyright notice in any ??associated documentation files?? provided with your generated waveforms.

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/sf2/ which is the standard Debian location for system-wide SF2 soundfonts.

There are three methods to install musescore-general-soundfont-lossless on Debian 12. 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 12

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 12, 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 12 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 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.