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Re:Canyon.mid by bananaboy on Monday June 16, 2025 @07:05AM (#44288412)
I just now went searching to see if there were any better quality GM drivers for Windows that let you upload a soundfonts and it looks really dire out there! The one that mainly shows up is VirtualMIDISynth (https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth). It seems like it supports Windows 11.
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Re:Canyon.mid by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday June 16, 2025 @11:32AM (#44290552)
SoundFont® synths were never good. When Creative added this feature to their sound cards, they were trying to provide a cheaper alternative to dedicated hardware synths, but it did not match the quality (though it was still a step up from FM). And in the modern era, this obsolete format has somehow become more popular, now via software reimplementations, because of the catchy name or something?

I also want to point to Nuked SC-55, but that is also not based on SoundFont®.

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Re:Canyon.mid by bananaboy on Monday June 16, 2025 @06:47PM (#44294095)
If you have a high quality sample pack though it could sound good.
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