Alejandro Lopez wrote:
apparently Windows XP uses a soft synth by default.
[...] I'll be
looking into using the fonts that Windows may have. At the moment,
all I know is they sound quite good and quite uniform (they work
well as a GM set).
They are related to Roland's Sound Canvas sounds:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.HPX.4.33n.0404070904380.17626-100…
I shall investigate wether the waves are in any known
sond font
format or not.
The file gm.dls or gm16.dls is stored in ...\system32\drivers\.
The DLS format is an MMA standard:
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/abtdls.shtml
HTH
Clemens