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Authored by: mweissen on Jun 10, '02 05:49:05AM

Has anyone found any *complete* high-quality GM/GS sound fonts? I found the following, but they do not work very well. There are missing voices and some of these soundfonts actually sound worse than the built-in Roland soundfont.

SilverSpring -- http://files.mehnle.net/silverspring12.zip
AnotherGS -- http://bennetng.uhome.net/
GeneralUser GS -- http://www.sccmusic.250x.com/sfont/genuser/index.htm

Here's another one which seems interesting, but I couldn't download it.

Fluid R3 -- http://www.powermage.com/fluid


StuffIt Expander can BTW open self-extracting zip files (.exe).



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Authored by: mweissen on Jun 10, '02 07:21:42AM

For the record, the Fluid soundfont sounds fantastic, but the unpacked file is 141MB large and my G3/500 can't play even a simple piano sonata without the sound getting choppy. Those of you with dual G4s and 60+GB hard disks may enjoy it, though. Unpacking requires SFArk on Windows.

The GeneralUser soundfont (25MB) seems fairly complete has problems with the relative volume of the various instruments. The bassoons and flutes are blaring, while piano and bass are barely audible.

The Silverspring soundfont (62MB) is otherwise quite OK, but the instruments are not completely in tune with each other and some percussion sounds are blatantly wrong.



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Authored by: Frungi on Jun 24, '05 09:21:59PM
quote: Unpacking requires SFArk on Windows.
See "melodymachine"'s comment, or just click here: sfArkXT zip. I don't know why the OS X version is a .zip

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Authored by: etejkowski on Jun 11, '02 06:28:12AM

www.soundfont.com has some more SoundFont files for download that sound pretty good and are reasonably sized. Or, you could make your own with PolyPhontics for OS X:

www.bestsoftwaredesign.com



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Authored by: dchung on Aug 18, '02 10:46:06PM

I tried this trick and it did work. I found a 12MB soundfont on internet, but it sounds worse than the original Roland....


Strongly recommand not to alter it until you find a really good high quality font.

Denni



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