How many soundfont makers actually try to make them small too? Mine is 127 Mb (still somewhat large) and sounds much better IMO than almost any other I've tried, including this one. I personally use that as my primary soundfont. UPDATE: The AWE32 ROM Dump soundfont is another great soundfont I just came across, and here's the soundfont in action in a MIDI rip of the King Meteor remix of 'Launch Base - Act 1 - S&K Collection,' which I titled 'Rush to Launch,' in addition to the DL link to said soundfont.Īnother good one is fireball sf, bby Lord Of the Chicken Wings.
m4a container like MP4 and AAC do, to dispel any confusion, and here's the link to both soundfonts for anyone that wants to try them out. The Dance of the Spheares (with the 8BitSF rip as an added bonus).įYI, the ALAC/Apple Lossless codec uses the. The initial FLAC rips were made using Timidity and my soundfont of choice. The metadata and fadeout effect (for rips that end abruptly otherwise) were added in Audacity, and the ALAC copies were made using ffmpeg's ALAC encoder. GenesiSF/The Ultimate Megadrive Soundfont is a good one, as is 8BitSF, here's a few MIDI rips I made using the soundfonts, including both ALAC and FLAC links, I will not be putting any lossy copies up, so don't ask for any lossy copies, granted it was on Realtek onboard audio using Timidty, but here 'ya go. * Voice Crystal 4 MB GM - A very nice, small soundfont. ? Video (DOOM E1M1): - check the video description for a list of 4 main versions of this soundfont (stereo panned perc, lite edition with stereo panned perc, enhanced pianos and stereo panned perc, StereoID perc) Others might like them, but that particular electric guitar style is bleh to me. * Utopia Live! - 20+ Mb - The electric guitars are just not my taste. * sYnerGi GS - 40+ MB - I think it's nice for its size. * Sonic Reality OmniSynth - Available for SampleTank and as a soundfont. Pretty nice, except for the distortion guitar, which is horrid. Some of the instruments are not really useable for regular MIDI playback, such as Synth Voice (in this soundfont it is a sample of a female "laa" that just sounds comical in some MIDIs). Videos: DOOM E1M1 - | E1M8 - | DOOM 2 Map05. * NemeSys Conexant GM500 - Originally in Giga format.
There are also some free Merlin soundfonts, such as Creative, Elite, Gold, Gold Plus, Grand, Jupiter, Plus, Pro, Silver, Special, Vienna, and WXP.
It's okay I es some sounds from the standard E-mu/Creative soundfonts.
* JaZMan GM24 PRO - 250+ MB 24-bit soundfont. Not really suited for classic game MIDIs this soundfont is intended for creating music in genres such as dance, techno, etc.
* EdgeSounds SoniqBear GM120Pro - Contains 4 full GM banks, and several drumsets. Not really suited for classic game MIDIs soundfont's samples are more intended for creating music with. * EdgeSounds GeneVoice GM64Pro - 24-bit soundfont. Video (DOOM E1M1): Įdit: And I'll also list all of the other commercial soundfonts I have, and a few opinions for them (which others may or may not agree with). The 24 MB soundfont is better than this one IMHO. It's a mixed bag it does have a few very good instruments, but it also has some bad ones, resulting in poor balance depending on which instruments are used in a MIDI. The product description for this is exaggerated, and this soundfont is definitely not amazing. * 250 MB GM/GS - "A step forward in every conceivable way and the last Soundfont GM Set you’ll likely ever need" - the Sonivox website. Although they are designed for playing GM files, many of the instruments do not use the GM standard, which can result in some MIDIs sounding strange. * Industrial Dance and Retro Synth - These are two pseudo-GM soundfonts. There were also a couple of smaller, lower quality versions of this soundfont, such as a 4 MB GM-only version. Some of the instruments are not very realistic (such as the choir ahhs), and some are rather weak compared to some free soundfonts (strings and church organ for example).
* 24 MB GM/GS - A nice soundfont I suppose.I did use it quite a lot. Most of them I had to obtain from others who kindly uploaded them, since the Sonivox soundfonts are no longer sold anywhere as far as I know. I have pretty much all the Sonivox GM soundfonts. How about commercial sound fonts like Sonivox? Anyone tried those?