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A lot ofДownload time was spent on these. This list is updated when/if I get new soundfonts. Here is a nice list of ALL the General MIDI soundfonts I currently A Google Drive folder with some soundfonts is available here (all included soundfonts are either free or formerly commercial): Fiddle and Viola are 1 octave too high (their regions need to be shifted up one octave, then the samples' root keys).Д®dit : This list is no longer updated. Square and Bass & Lead are too loud (Square should be attenuated from 10 dB to 36 dB, Bass & Lead should be attenuated from 10 dB to 24 dB).

This seems to be an issue with the samples themselves and cannot be fixed (except by completely replacing them with different samples). Vox) sounds strange/unpleasant (out of tune?). Square has 'key group exclusion', causing it to be monophonic. Credit goes to kode54 on KVR forums for finding many of these issues:

Some instruments need fixing (the soundfont can be edited in Awave Studio or Polyphone).

Good for use in composing General MIDI music.

Overall, the GM sound is pretty good, even though there are a few issues that need to be fixed. It doesn't really matter though just about all GM soundfonts use a few samples borrowed from other sources. After listening to some more samples, there are other instruments borrowed from the GM64Pro soundfont. (Awave Studio is not free, but there is a free alternative soundfont editor called Polyphone.)ДЄlso, the Square instrument is actually the one from another commercial soundfont, the GeneVoice GM64Pro. Fortunately, I just had to edit the soundfont with Awave Studio to fix it. However, it's because the soundfont has the Square instrument set to monophonic, making it rather unusable. At first I thought that it was a problem with the BASSMIDI library. It sounds screwed up in this soundfont it wasn't looping properly/kept cutting out, and would only play one note at a time. The overdrive and distortion guitars, for example, use some Fender Strat and Garcia Distortion samples respectively.ДЇor some reason, I encountered a problem with the Square instrument. Some of the instruments use free samples.

The fact that it uses samples from different sources may cause some slight imbalance with some instruments, but the instruments generally all play well together. The instruments are from various sources, and many are probably original and created by the soundfont's author(s).

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The soundfont has the 128 GM instruments, plus the drumkits. The samples are 24-bit quality, unlike the quality from regular 16-bit soundfonts. The melodic instruments are fine, and the drums are solid and heavy. The soundfont overall sounds pretty nice. So, I loaded the soundfont into the CoolSoft MIDI synth driver, and proceeded to play MIDI files MIDIs from games like DOOM, MIDI music of songs from movies and the like, and my own MIDI files that I have previously composed.

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The soundfont can be loaded into any sf2-compatible program, such as CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth and BASSMIDI driver (CoolSoft actually uses the BASSMIDI library). The installation folder also has an uninstaller, although I doubt anyone would need to use that. After that, the soundfont can be copied to wherever you wish on the computer. The soundfont's final uncompressed size is 259 MB. But anyway, the soundfont is installed by running the exe. Using an installer for this is rather odd, since a soundfont is just a sf2 file that can easily be moved around an installer isn't really necessary.

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The rar archive contains a few text files, a PDF instruments list, and.an executable installer. The soundfont is available from gmsoundfont DOT com for US$69.95.ДЄfter payment, a download link is immediately given.

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The JaZMan PRO GM is a commercial 24-bit General MIDI soundfont, one of the few commercial GM sample sets that is still sold.