
Interesting also to understand how works a synthesizer based on SoundFont. Have a look to these two applications for editing SoundFonts: However, Maestro is able to optimize the contents of the SoundFonts! see below. There is a reason for that: there is powerful tools, often for free, to modifying in depth SoundFonts. To be clear, Maestro does not provide full functions for editing SoundFont.
Don’t forget to have a look to the Christian Collins site which contains a lot of interesting information. Polyphone sorted by category and search engine. Download SoundFontsįind and download interesting SoundFonts here: So, you keep a low volume of files for your application or game. Analyze your Midi files to keep only necessary samples. Keep only banks of interest for your application. Maestro Midi Player Tool Kit PRO is able to use others SoundFonts, optimize the samples list, load and switch between SoundFont when your application is playing: It’s a SoundFont with a very good balancing between size and quality. The FREE version of Midi Player Tool Kit use the SoundFont GeneralUser GS v1.471 from Christian Collins site here. SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc. The possibilities are huge, quite infinite! Moreover hundreds SoundFont are available on the web!!! for free or not, with different styles (general, classic, jazz, electro, hip hop, …), with different quality and size.
Happily the complexity is hidden by Maestro!Ī SoundFont can contains hundreds samples and instruments. The description of how to use each sounds for each keys, velocities, effects, controllers is quite complex. It’s a kind of library which contains the samples associated to each instruments (as piano, sax, drum, …).
The MPTK synthesizer is based on SoundFonts.