GeneralUser Soundfont Help

[GraVeu]

I got the generaluser soundfont but I'm not really sure what its purpose is. Does it exist to playback MIDI files and if so, how does this work? I had thought that you use GeneralUser to play different instruments, but lots of people say its to use MIDI Files?

I'm just confused at this point

[musikbear]

Does it exist to playback MIDI files

No, it just has all midi-instruments exactly as your midi-hw-card.

how does this work? '

On the plugin-page, You see this picture:

In the middle it has a dropdown named PATCH
Here you can select between every midi-instrument, but you also have percussion BANKS and that will allow you to distribute percussion over all your keys on kb.

So you are correct:

I thought that you use GeneralUser to play different instruments,

You can also read more about it here:
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=SF2_Player

[GraVeu]

Cool, thanks! It seems as if I've been using it correctly then, thank you for the confirmation