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What are "Soundfonds"

I got a new soundcard (Creative SB Live Player 1024) and it comes with a bunch of 'EMU Sound fonts'. For what can I use these 'sound fonts' and are they any good?
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What are "Soundfonds"

Reply #1 –
SoundFonts is a technology used by many soundcards and software synthesizers that allow you to customize your instrument sounds for MIDI music playback or MIDI sequencing. Developed by Creative Labs and Emu Systems, SoundFont technology allows the user to improve the sound quality of their MIDI playback by either loading a better sounding General MIDI (GM) wavetable sound-set, or loading new (non-GM) sounds for use in music composition and songwriting.

What are "Soundfonds"

Reply #2 –
I'm not sure if I got you right, but how do I find out what SoundFont I should use? I got more than 2MB of it :confused:
--alt-presets are there for a reason! These other switches DO NOT work better than it, trust me on this.
LAME + Joint Stereo doesn't destroy 'Stereo'

What are "Soundfonds"

Reply #3 –
RIV@NVX has explained it quite well.

I don't own an SBLive, but I had the AWE32, which was the first one that started coming with soundfonts (from creative, that is).
They delivered a CD of soundfont "samples". And had 3 standard MIDI banks, but they were just of 512KB...


Anyway, you don't need to care about them if your intentions aren't within these:

A) Listening to MIDI files ( .mid , etc... ) played directly by the soundcard. (This is, not using DirectMidi, which then, uses the software synth from Microsoft and .dls (wich are similar to .sf2, but not the same)).

B) Composing your own music, either using MIDI sequencers, or Soundfont players ( VSTi's etc.. )


In the end... if your point is A, then the bank "GM" or the one named "GS" are the best candidates. And listen. This way you'll know what to use ( I won't enter in details of what GM or GS is, because this is all MIDI related).

if your point is B, then you're the one who decide :·)

Bye!