Sound Fonts

SoundFont banks are sets of samples, which are recordings of real or synthesized musical instruments that can be controlled by MIDI. The SoundFont technology was first introduced with the Sound Blaster AWE32 back in 1994, and native support has been present on most Sound Blaster sound cards. They are files containing samples and descriptions to play a range of instruments. Modern sound font files have SF2 or SF2Pack extensions. Unfortunately default Sound Font banks which can be found in Windows and Mac OS X do not sound very well. You need to replace standard system sound fonts in your OS to change default MIDI instruments sound. Good sound fonts were designed by Creative for modern audio cards such as Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2/NX/ZS, Audigy 4. Sound Fonts shipped with these sound cards sound very good but not very realistically if you compare with real instruments sound. We got perfect results with general sound font library developed by composer and sound enthusiast Christian Collins. We highly recommend this Sound Font library. GeneralUser GS SoundFont can be found here:
http://www.schristiancollins.com/generaluser.php

With help of Smart MIDI to MP3 utility you can render mp3 files and enjoy realistic sounds in MIDI compositions without system setting modification. Try use different sound fonts and find best match for your MIDI composition in few minutes.

To render MIDI compositions you need SoundFonts having standard set of instruments, usually Roland's General MIDI (GM) or GS standard. If you will try to load specialized SoundFonts exists height probability you get poor sound or even silent MP3 file as output. GM (General MIDI) Sound Font consists of 128 instruments. GS is an extended GM (GM plus some Roland Extensions). Sound Font files size vary from 4Mb to 128+Mb, depending on the quality and richness of the instrument set. For comparison, the default Roland SoundFont is 1.5Mb in size.

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