I, like many others, love midi songs but have always thought soundfonts were a mixed bag. Some sound amazing on certain instruments, but horrible on others. I have every free bank that is available and have tried free and commercial soundfonts. Other issues I ran into:
Good job ! I personally don't use GM but individual sf2's on each track in my DAW. I have extracted from your bank (with sf2splitter) my very favourites:Elpiano2, Hammond organ, Bandoneon, PickedBass, Distorsion guitar, the "cinematic" Slow strings, the Brass section(best one on the free market), Halo and Ambient Sweep pads, 1 jazz and 2 standart drumkits, and will certainly happily use them (not professionally) from now on.Thanks !
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Rick Simon said in a comment on one of his youtube videos that most of the presets in his OmegaGMGS2.sf2 soundfont are samples from other free soundfonts he found on the internet, but he also said that some of the samples he used were from his hardware synths like his Korg and his Roland FA, so you can safely assume that this sounfont is totally illegal.
Jeffrey Baitis11 months ago@Rick Simon, this is really great. Thank you for compiling this. Do you have any information about the licensing of this soundfont?Reply Rick SimonRick Simon11 months agoThank you and your welcome about the compiling. As far as licensing, do you mean the song itself or the soundfont? If the song, the original composer would be the one the ask about that (and likely impossible to find). As for my soundfont, some of the samples are from hardware, such as the Korg Triton, Sound Canvas, and the Roland FA-06. Most of the presets are from free soundfonts I have collected over the years. So for licensing, I would say fair use and commercial would not be out of the question, just please give credit where it is due is all I ask. If you could elaborate a little more, I can give you a more specific answer to your question.Read more
All of these sounds are completely free to use for derivative works, they are specifically licensed to be so. The only thing that is usually forbidden is creating derivative products that compete with original product such as sample libraries.
So while the act of creating and distributing this soundfont is technically in breach of copyright, making your own music with these samples still fits in the blanket license that covers them as free to use in derivative works.
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A nice collection of old-school synths and basses which are free to use in music production also comes with a mixture of trance, electro, hip-hop, and modern music type of synth sound fonts, all come in mono so be sure to add some post-production channel effects to make them sound better.
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While the current version of GeneralUser GS can be used with the hardware synthesizer found in many Sound Blaster audio cards, you will achieve better results using a version that was designed especially for this hardware (see list of downloads below).
Most other SoundFont synths do not support all of the programming I have used in GeneralUser GS and will cause many of the presets to sound incorrect. (See my blog post Using SoundFonts in 2016 for more information on this matter.) For these unsupported SoundFont synths, you can download an older "SoftSynth" version of GeneralUser GS below that cuts out a lot of the special programming and is less likely to result in broken-sounding presets.
Please note that starting with version 1.44, the license has changed. I wanted to make it easier for GeneralUser GS to be repackaged and modified if necessary, which should hopefully now make it possible for e.g., GNU/Linux distributions to include it in their repositories. Please see LICENSE.txt included with the GeneralUser GS download for more information.
This website is created by Zanderjaz. All showcased music was created by Zanderjaz and collaborating musicians over the span of several years. Find many free downloads such as albums, books, drum kits, soundfonts, and other stuff. Music production credit must be given to Zanderjaz and collaborating musicians. 2ff7e9595c
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