Loading midi soundfonts on startup

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:03 -0500, BBBB wrote:
> After MANY hours googling and finding bits and pieces of info to make midi
> files play on my machine,
> I finally have KMid working. The only problem is that every time I reboot, I
> have to open up a terminal
> and reload the soundfont (.SF2) file before it will work. I haven't been
> able to find an answer to this
> last piece of the puzzle.
> 
> Is there a way to have the soundfont in place when the computer boots?
> 
> Thanks for a great list,
> Bradley
> 
> 
Yes.  Create a small script that start when you first boot the system.
(If you don't know where to start, ask again here.  Read below why I
didn't gave more information.)

But, may I ask you why the need to use "soundfont"?  Why not use
"timidity"¹ which is easier to configure and use?

Ziyad.

Footnotes
     1. "timidity" is a *software* MIDI sequencer.  This is a Good Thing
        (in that it doesn't require any hardware support) and a Bad
        Thing (in that you'll lose the hardware acceleration in your
        sound device if it had a MIDI capability).