Jazz Jackrabbit Xmas '94 (Holiday Hare) - Silent Night (Holidaius) [Arachno SoundFont MIDI Music]

Free MP3/OGG/SoundFont download: http://www.arachnosoft.com

Merry Christmas everyone!

This music covers the level 3 soundtrack from Jazz Jackrabbit Xmas '94, a game developed and released by Epic Megagames on the MS-DOS PC platform in 1994.
It's not the original music from the game, but a MIDI file composed by MaliceX, from the original soundtrack by Robert A. Allen.

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate that MIDI files can actually sound very good when played with a nice synthesizer.
Here, I used the free SynthFont SoundFont-compatible software synthesizer (http://www.synthfont.com) to reproduce a MIDI file using Arachno SoundFont, a custom General MIDI SoundFont bank I designed for my Sound Blaster Live! soundcard.
My bank features many famous sounds from the best synthesizers by Roland (D-50, Sound Canvas...), Korg (M1, X5...), Yamaha (MU, Clavinova...), Fairlight (CMI), E-MU (Emulator), Ensoniq...

The audio track has been recorded straight from SynthFont using my Arachno SoundFont bank and the MIDI file, dry, without any added effects.
Arachno SoundFont, as well as MP3 and OGG versions of this recording can be downloaded for free on my website, at http://www.arachnosoft.com

Used to think that MIDI music was ugly? Think again!
Any questions, comments or remarks will be appreciated!

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Joyeux Noël à toutes et à tous !

Cette musique reprend les morceaux utilisés sur niveau 3 de Jazz Jackrabbit Xmas '94, un jeu développé et distribué par Epic Megagames sur PC MS-DOS en 1994.
Il ne s'agit pas de la bande son originale du jeu, mais d'un fichier MIDI composé par Robert A. Allen à partir de cette bande son, composée à l'origine par Robert A. Allen.

Le but de cette vidéo est de démontrer que les fichiers MIDI peuvent produire un excellent son lorsqu'ils sont joués sur un très bon synthétiseur.
Ici, j'ai utilisé le synthétiseur logiciel SynthFont, compatible SoundFont (http://www.synthfont.com) pour reproduire un fichier MIDI à l'aide d'une banque de sons General MIDI au format SoundFont, que j'ai créée pour ma Sound Blaster Live!.
Cette banque comporte de nombreux sons célèbres issus des meilleurs synthétiseurs de chez Roland (D-50, Sound Canvas...), Korg (M1, X5...), Yamaha (MU, Clavinova...), Fairlight (CMI), E-MU (Emulator), Ensoniq...

La piste audio a été enregistrée directement depuis SynthFont avec ma banque Arachno SoundFont et le fichier MIDI, sans aucun effet ajouté.
Arachno SoundFont, ainsi que cet enregistrement peuvent être téléchargés gratuitement sur mon site Web, en versions MP3 et OGG, à l'adresse http://www.arachnosoft.com

Vous pensiez que la musique MIDI était d'une laideur affligeante ? Révisez votre jugement !
Toutes questions, remarques et commentaires seront les bienvenus !

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[arachnosoft]

You should try a real Sound Canvas module.

MS Synth IS absolutely terrible, with most sounds screwed up because of a poor rendering engine.

VSC is slightly better, but still worse than real hardware Sound Canvas.

However, more recent Roland software implementations of Sound Canvas modules (such as Hyper Canvas) sound much better, quite close to real hardware sound modules.

Yamaha's software synths, such as SYXG-50, sound very decent too, compared to their hardware counterparts.

[Penguindog55]

@arachnosoft I do now have an SC-88Pro, it even has the option of SC-55 sounds in SC-55 mode.

Microsoft midi synth is rather harsh, I admit I found some or even most of the sounds are unusable for recording plus you only get 128 GM sounds ( no GS variations ).

At least VSC was GS, but still not much better.

Another advantage to hardware is you don't have to worry about Operating system software incompatibility.

[Penguindog55]

No personally I prefer microsoft midi synth or Roland virtual sound canvas,but this video demonstrates that you can porduce decent sounds from soundfonts but with microsoft midi synth and Roland VSC at least none of the sounds are terrible or at least I think so.When I do basic midi sequencing I use Microsoft midi synth,Roland VSC,a Yamaha PSR-295 and a Roland MC-505 synthesizer and I pick and mix to enhance the sound quality.