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Gaming Arena => Gaming and Technology => Topic started by: Yerix on Aug 03 2010, 07:39 PM
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any practical way to change the soundfont used for when you play a .midi file?
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I recall hearing awhile ago that it had to do with your soundcard as to how (or even if) you can do this. A quick search lead me here (http://www.spheredev.org/wiki/Changing_soundfonts), which seems to support that.
I'd be happy to help you look into this, but what kind of sound card do you have?
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to be honest, i'm just about ready to call myself SOL and give up
this being a laptop from '03, the sound hardware is probably directly built into the motherboard and is nothing high-end
but according to the article though, apperently one could use awave studio to save an .sf2 into a .dls, and use whatever method to replace the gm.dls file with the "converted" file.
i'd do it myself if only i didn't have to buy awave, first of all is that i can't buy things online myself, second is that $130 is rather steep, though probably because it's a high-end program
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Depends on what you need it for. I got programs that open soundfonts and then play midis with it, letting you save the result as a .wav.
Program is called synthfont. It even lets you manually asign the instruments the song should use, unless it has controller segments.
If that's not good enough, I don't know anything else.
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i'm looking into synthfont right now