Post your favoirte Soundfont

[Stochastic]

What are your favorite soundfonts? I'm sure we've all spent hours diggin around the net on various pages, listening to some pretty bad soundfonts, just to find one or two really nice ones that make it all worth our time. Hopefully, we can find a group of GPL soundfonts worthy of redistribution...

So post away, what are your favorites?

[Unterseeboot_234]

Excuse me, but I was disgusted by everything I tried to accomplish .midi on my Ubuntu. Instead, I use the Sun java JMF -- Java Media Framework and java SoundAPI. 30 lines of code and I can play .midi. Good midi. Sun offers 3 qualities of SoundBANKS that include SoundFonts. You can edit the SoundBank with Beatnik free Editor.


For the Java SoundBank (http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbanks.html)
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbanks.html

For the Beatnik Editor (http://www.beatnik.com/products/tools.html)
http://www.beatnik.com/products/tools.html

These are rich musical soundfonts. I realize you might be looking for soundfonts for musical composing, but I want to promote an easy way to embed .midi and suggest these sound samples as a quality tool to consider.

[angelsguitar]

I'll have to vote for the PersonalCopy soundfount. I've been using it for years. Here's the website:

http://www.personalcopy.com

They even have a section for Linux users. Although the website has several good collections (Unison, RealFont, Merlin...), the one I mostly use is the one actually named "PersonalCopy".

[Stochastic]

I just came across these links, thought I would add them to this listing.

http://www.ntonyx.com/sf.htm

http://www.soundcreationsinc.com/tech/splendid/Splendid_72M.sfArk (a grand Piano soundfont)

[c00kie55]

havent used them since i first bougth a old soundblaster live. tough is was so cool that time i stopped using them becourse lack of quality when compared to gigasampler

i remember when i made my one ones that my master recording of the sound and the output from the sf2 (soundfont) was to far from each other (guitar sounds sounded like a synth organ.. really) not to say there not are good soundfonts out there if you dig.. and guess thing migth have chansed sinse

god soundfonts seams big and or syntetic but guess that they can sometimes be better than gm midi banks

iwould rather build somthing up around gigs and Linuxsampler (if its possible)