SoundFonts..

JangoMango

Happy Christmas !

Just getting into sound fonts and there are millions of the little devils..

What are your favourite sound font packs or instruments?

Thanks!!

[Deleted User]

Squidfont for orchestral sounds, I converted some akai format sample sets for Mellotron and Chamberlin sounds, Jeux d'Orgues sample sets for classical organs, I converted Symphony of Voices for choirs and solo voices. Other than that, the supplied GM set is pretty good.

richardyot

Do you have links for those Paul - I have the Squidfont set but not the others.

[Deleted User]

The Tron and Vocal sets I have on commercial CD ROMs. The Organ sets I tracked down on the internet via the information on the App Store for the Jeux d'Orgues app. There's rather a lot, I'll take a look and post a link.

[Deleted User]

My mistake, they were the free GrandOrgue sample sets, which can be downloaded from here.
http://www.familjenpalo.se/vpo/download

noisyninja

I'm interested in this too. Any links to free sites would be appreciated. I don't wanna buy any until I've played around with them first. I just got bs-16i and soundfonts are all new to me.

I just searched google for squidfont and found this link which seems to have a few. Not sure if they are any good.

http://soundfonts.darkesword.com

TedBPhx

Symphony of Voices is still $500. Yikes!

JangoMango

Just made some discoveries..

For newbies starting out with Sound fonts, download yourself iZip.. Most of these seem to be zip files, so open-in iZip, then from iZip open-in B-16i.

This website seems good, www.hammersound.com

[Deleted User]

@TedBPhx said:

Symphony of Voices is still $500. Yikes!

I was lucky, I got them cheap from a friend who was selling off all his music stuff.

thepinkelefant

@noisyninja said:

I'm interested in this too. Any links to free sites would be appreciated. I don't wanna buy any until I've played around with them first. I just got bs-16i and soundfonts are all new to me.

I just searched google for squidfont and found this link which seems to have a few. Not sure if they are any good.

http://soundfonts.darkesword.com

Cool site but they are .sfpack files which seems to be some
compressed file format of sf2....and there doesn't seem to be any way on Unix or Mac to convert to sf2...if anybody is uploading the sf2 to Dropbox it will much appreciated !!

NoiseHorse

Soundfonts had a thread back in the summer. Here's some good stuff from @JMSexton:

@JMSexton said:

These are mostly high quality soundfonts (*.sf2) compatible with BS-16i and a few other apps. These are currently compressed (rar), but don't worry the entire process can still be done on an iPad only. Simply download the files you would like from Dropbox, then "Open In..." an app like GoodReader, extract (unzip) the file exposing the .sf2 file, then "Open In..." BS-16i or a compatible program. The process can be simpler if you copy the download link and paste it into GoodReader's download manager, this eliminates use of a browser and a few steps.

Please note and credit the makers of Evanessence 2 (KVR forum) and Saint James Orchestra (and a few unknowns) for these high quality instruments and Viena SoundFont Editor for a great program. I simply took the best and most desirable files and compiled them into a few separate soundfonts. As with anything there may be a few "duds" but most should be great. Enjoy!
(compressed/uncompressed)

String & Brass (193/341mb)
Brass & Strings Revised (168/297mb)

Piano & Organ (86/273mb)

Guitar & Bass (121/271mb)

Drums (70/199mb)

Worldwide (12/25mb)

Roland SC-55 (15/25mb)

Roland SC-55 is a great all-around soundfont only 25 mb and has a ton of instruments loaded with quality and variety

Guitarded & Orchestrated 44mb & 40mb

This is two separate soundfonts zipped into one file. Guitarded is a lot of guitars and is 44mb and Orchestrated is a ton of pretty good (mostly Saint James Orchestra) orchestra instruments. Both have a small memory footprint.

Viena SoundFont Editor

Size doesn't always matter with soundfonts (haha); Roland SC-55, Guitarded, and Orchestrated all take up minimal space while providing great quality and variety. Let me know if you have any issues with files, links, etc...Profit!

-Jarrett

TheMetaphysicalCrook

This site is loaded with all sorts of sf2's - no sfarks as far as i know- as well as samples/kits, all freely downloadable. http://www.freedrumkits.net/sound-fonts (this links to the soundfont section, but better use the reasonably well implemented 'search sounds' function on the right, you can input a few letters and it will update in realtime, then you can then swipe/scroll the results like pages, left and rigth, in the drop down results pane)

[Deleted User]

http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/35812#Comment_35812

yowza

@thepinkelefant said:

Cool site but they are .sfpack files which seems to be some
compressed file format of sf2....and there doesn't seem to be any way on Unix or Mac to >convert to sf2...if anybody is uploading the sf2 to Dropbox it will much appreciated !!

There is a way to unpack sfpack files on Mac, I just did it a few weeks ago. You have to use Wine to create an app. It takes a few minutes and works great. Follow these directions copied from the last post in the thread at this link :

http://ocremix.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-4520.html

This thread is the first Google result for "sfpack osx"

Just a quick note on what I believe is the best (free) solution, if you have an Intel mac:

• install wine and winebottler http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

• download sfpack for windows http://www.personalcopy.com/sfpack.htm

• extract the zip file

• launch winebottler

• create custom prefix

• choose the sfpack.exe file

• check "copy only"

• click Install

• when it's done, locate the newly created SFPack.app

• ctrl+click, show package contents

• navigate to Contents/Resources/drive_c/winebottler

• copy over the DLL and CHM files from the original sfpack zip

• launch SFPack.app

• profit

JangoMango

Brilliant, thanks all.. Now have some incredibly good sound fonts..