[linux-audio-user] Soundfonts

James Stone jamesmstone at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 03:53:40 EST 2007


On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:19:23AM +0000, Folderol wrote:
> 
> I'm just trying to get to grips with Qsynth but can't find any
> soundfonts. Everything on Google seems to point to Hammersound, and
> when I look there I only see an empty index for every set.
> 
> I'm particularly looking for Fluid R3, which seems to be a well
> recommended GM font. 
>

I think you can get it from: 

http://www.sf2midi.com/

There are also some nice soundfonts at:

http://www.personalcopy.com/home.htm

I like the unison font which is not too heavy in memory use.

Apparently the SGM180 is very good (perhaps better than FluidR3).
I am just downloading from:

ftp://sf2midi.com/sgm128/SGM180v1.5.zip

Also, this looks interesting:

http://www.geocities.jp/shansoundfont/

James



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