High Quality Midi soundfont demonstration

[1337Michelle]

This sounds like Mabinogi music to me.

[SgtThom]

FF12 uses a midi like system. Not very common for non-square games in the PS2 era. It's good for speeding up streaming.

[TylerRobinson7]

Can you please send me the font? i cant find it online

[dogman15]

"One Stop" is not "cheesy"! It's a great composition by David Yackley! See YouTube video "KfwoSXQx_uw".

[britishpirate93]

Sound's like what I consider good video game music. That's a compliment, from me. :D

[TheOnlyPKMNmaster]

I never thought midis sounded crappy, my whole video collection uses midis in one way or another.

[goodhamad]

this is not a very HQ soundfonts my dear

there is more professional sounds in Sf2 format now

if you want to know let me know :)

thanks

[sacredcat1]

@goodhamad I'd like to know more.

[MediaBoBanger]

Very nice sound. Midi files can sound good. I ran across this video looking for some high Quality sound fonts. I installed Timidity++ and making midi sound different every time by selecting a different SF.

I'm listening to the "onestop.mid" file using the NES Soundfont. heh. Downloading the SGM V2 sound font now. This helps when playing my old classic dos games. Can change the way the music sounds.

[cvl85]

How did you use these sounds as your midi out? or how can i change my default soundfonts? coz they really sounds like SHIT!!!

[Zeratuhl]

@cvl85

Well, I'm using an X-Fi Elite Pro soundcard and part of the driver package is a soundfont manager. You can still do it with any normal soundcard though, but the exact method depends on what you're using. If your media player has builtin soundfont support then you can probably find a setting in the options for that somewhere. You can also change the default soundfont that windows uses, but that's a bit more compliated and you should probably just google around for a tutorial.

[cvl85]

@Zeratuhl mine is the standard laptop sound card with the crappy GS wavetable synth. i've a bunch of sound fonts around but didn't know how to put it in. can help?

[79Yamato]

@cvl85

watch?v=Zax1JZpXDME

TIMIDITY works on any soundcard because it registers itself as a new midi-out device.

h t t p : / / timidity . sourceforge . net/#info

(copy to adress bar and remove spaces)

[mixworx]

This sound is quite so good for me, as surprisingly best one I heard on Casio(!!) CTK-5000. It is wonderfully balanced and it dont feel like chemical MIDI (probably default reverb setting helps?) look for it ...

[eagles195]

nice one, seriously, keep it up :P

[belartful]

What soundfont format is it? sf2? or something else? Also, where can it be found? (is it available anywhere?)

I recently converted an sf2 that was like 1GB in size to a dls file. I then switched out the generic (ugly sounding) gm.dls file in my windows directory and put in the new one. Now my midis sound super nice! But THIS soundfont in your video sounds pretty good.

[techguy348]

The soundfont sounds so clear and so good that I now use it as my default soundfont for doing any midi mix =-)

[lifeatlast26]

getting into soundfonts for beat production in FL man.. for my bday im gettin that mpk49 its already in the mail. im wondering what you would suggest for specs on a PC. how much should i drop, what should i focus on - is win7 worth the upgrade? winxp runs so clean. etc. i know i need to get a good soundcard and interface, probably gonna go with firewire so i can use it later in life... wondering mainly how fast my (desktop) pc should be to handle lots of vst's and the mastering/mixing on a DAW

[GollumanatorsRevenge]

@lifeatlast26 If you need a PC that will be able to run a handful of VSTs in FL, then here are some minimum specs to go by. Obviously, the faster the better, but if you need to save money then these specs will do fine.

-Processor - 4 cores clocked at 2.0 GHz

-RAM - 8GB DDR2

-64-bit operating system

-Hard Drive spinning at 7200RPM. This is the most important spec. Your hard drive NEEDS to spin at AT LEAST 7200RPM. SSDs, though expensive, are even better.

Hope this helped =)

[monocledsardine]

Sounds almost just as bad as msgs to me

[Penguindog55]

Are all the sounds from soundfonts?

[NewEquinoxProduction]

Probably so expensive that no normal person can buy this...but great sound!

[ALAPAT1]

where can I get this soundfont?

[ZeroBeatz1]

at the begining the track sounds like a J.U.S.T.I.C.E. league beat.

[MrMidiaudio]

service to Convert midi a mp3

[MarcSola7]

It was also found on Windows 2000 and Windows ME, both of them which where this midi was first released then later on was bundled with later Windows OS as stated on the description.

[AnavrinSM64]

0:00 to 0:39 Sounds so epic, too bad it isn't a full song D:

[GoldenPickaxe]

@AnavrinSM64 windows/system32/media/onestop­.mid

Something like that.

I agree, I'd like just the beginning, bt I thik it' called "onestop" because in one midi, it visits so many genres.

[ThomasPercy99]

@AnavrinSM64 It reminds you of DBZ Funimation Music.

[guitarskills2]

have you tried airfont 380? Its about 400 megs. its bigger, but I dont know if its better.

[splitbanana13]

midi has an undeserved rep for sounding like shit? funny, midi doesn't make any sound =P

[Zeratuhl]

@splitbanana13

touché :)

[79Yamato]

@splitbanana13

True however his statement perfectly describes how the uneducated percieve and associate the word "midi".

[MediaBoBanger]

@79Yamato

Indeed. I was like that myself a bit back until I started experimenting with Soundfonts using FL Studio to compose NES style tracks. Musical Instrument Digital Interface. So when you have the quality instruments midi can sound just fine. Midi on the PS1 hardware had nice sounding instruments.

[nicolaj0154]

help!:

i cant extract the sfark file to get the soundfont

would someone send me the sf2 file?

[ayefsanesi]

c:/windows/media/????????.mid XD

[ARGON023]

WoW....High Quality Midi soundfont exstra string, piano .... a guitar 60 'and 70' and twelve string sound like?

Yours

[SgtThom]

I wish I can change my sound front in vista.Oh well at least I have WinGroove.

[NoahsGuitarChannel]

onestop.mid is on Windows 7 too. I'm downloading the soundfont too!

[vanishy0urself]

Sorry, I'm a dumbass and I fail. Usually I'm the one who ALWAYS reads the description, but I was so blown away by this I commented immediately, LOL.

So, the soundfont is SGM 2.01. Now to find it and make it work.

[vanishy0urself]

Want. This. Soundfont.

Where can I get it?

[capoisten]

i use the AKAI MPK keybord on flstudio

and it can also be used in reason

kinda like in all musik prodgrams

[capoisten]

i have the AKAI MPK 49

and its a very good keybord

[dogman15]

I had forgotten that these songs came with Windows XP in the folder you described. If only I knew who wrote them!

[PerfectSaga]

@dogman15

Flourish and Town were made by Nathan Grigg & Onestop by David Yackley, for Microsoft in 2000.

[dogman15]

@PerfectSaga: I've learned that in the last eight months. I converted the MIDIs into TXT files at en dot nemidi dotorg, and hidden in the MIDI code's metadata was the composers name(s). But thank you for answering my question, anyway.

[MissCorii]

can this be used for fl studios?

[Zeratuhl]

I don't use FL myself, but as far as I can tell from googling around, yes it can. I don't know if FL supports soundfonts natively, but there is at least one plugin (Soundfont Player) that will allow you to use soundfonts for your midi keyboards/controllers/tracks.

[sbsproxmysox]

@Zeratuhl FL studio DOES use soundfonts.

[lifeatlast26]

@Zeratuhl yes yes and yes. FL is 100% compatible with soundfonts... XXL its native

[DJRosiel]

Yes, and no extra plug-in is needed.

[icycolds]

@MissCorii yeah i use t all the time

[Goldbloodeddragon]

@MissCorii Well, you only need one, but if you want multiple that's your choice. ;)

[jalenpdet5]

how can i get the soundfonts at the beginning..??

[Zeratuhl]

Jalenpdet5: As mentioned in the description, the font used is SGM V2.01. Google it and the first result should be what you're looking for.

[SgtThom]

@Zeratuhl

IS there way to uncompress the sound font?

[KlonoaKawaiiDesu]

this song sounds better with higher quality soundfonts, that's for sure. great demonstration.

[Pytak0703]

I just instaled TiMidity++ with SGM 2.01 and can archeive very very similar quality of onestop and other midis using my integrated Realtek soundcard (with Intel C2D E8200 and 4gigs of ram though ^^)

[KlonoaKawaiiDesu]

the only problem i have with TiMidity++ is that you have to do some programming on a BASIC program to get it to work. is there a version i can just install and use right away without all the useless coding you have to do? none of the tutorials online are helping and i can't find any programs to make a configuration file to get it to work. can you help me out here?

[Pytak0703]

There's no version you can install and use without configuring anything, but there's a config file for sgm v1.5 floating around on the net that works fine for sgm v2.01 (and possibly newer).

[BaronvonDhoom]

I love this song. I really preferred the orchestra hit sound in SGM1.5, though.