I need a sound font, please

[sptw]

Hi guys.

Well.... my wife loves to singing Karaoke.She has a MSI K7N420 Pro with this new nvidia chipset.The sound is really good, but i'm in trouble here.The midi sound is so poor.Where can i get a good, realistic and humm....free :D sound font to play with it?, well...i think it is something as sound blaster sound font.I'm sorry, i'm not a musician, and i don't understand nothing about it, but the nvidia midi software use a .dls and .sf2 file.Can someone help me?

Thanks in advance :)

sptw

[Gibbon]

hmmm... I'd send you my sound font but its 8mb in size :(

try maikng sure that you have specified the largest sf2 file to use, that exists on your hard drive, or any cdroms that came with the mobo...

Generally 2mb, 4mb, and 8mb files are used...

If that doesn't help, try changing the default MIDI music playback settings in Sounds and Multimedia (control Panel) and change it to each one then listen to the playback... (many soundcards have more than one synth)

If none of that works, try the creative website, and check for soundfont files there...

[speculative]

Yes, I'd check the Creative site for soundfonts... But they should also be available on the web as well. (I remember someone at a gaming site made a Final Fantasy soundfont just for Final Fantasy midis. :) )

[GITster]

Is it me, or does anyone else think that sound fonts are a dumb idea?

For exactly the reason spec mentioned, yo have to load specific fonts to hear some mids, and then bloody unload them to heard the normal mids!
Instead of fonts, why not have individual instuments, that are dynamically loaded when needed, so you build up a libary of instuments, and then say you play the final fantasy mid, it reads what instrumnets are needed and loads them.

[sptw]

Thanks for the input guys :)


Gibbon and Speculative: i have been using this 2mb, 4mb and 8mb sound font.This is good, but i'm searching for something better.I found <a href="http://www.sharewaremusicmachine.com/smm/programs/Unisonwin3/">Unison 1.00</a> and a good others sound fonts <a href="http://www.hammersound.net/cgi-bin/soundlink.pl?action=view_category&category=Collections&ListStart=0&ListLength=15">here</a>.Anyway, thanks for your Kindness :)

GITster: Thanks too for your input :) but as i said in my thread, i don't understand nothing about this stuff, although your advise does add up , i would not like to spend much time on it.I understand your point of view and agree with you, but it's only to use for sing karaoke :)

Thanks for helping.

Regards.

SPTW

[Topher]

There's one at our local Church, I think it might be a bit damaged though....... ;)

Topher.