Default sound fonts for LMMS.

[Eino]

If you can find a good one with GPL licence and it is less than 10mb, maybe it could be included in the future.

Seems nothing out there that I can find, all the packages are too large.
To bad someone can't write a script, for an download, and install if the system is on-line at the time of install. That would be less than 10mb.
Just a thought.

[softrabbit]

I looked into 8mbgmgs.sf2
Organ 1, in bank 0 doesn't play, That is a major fault when you import a MIDI file and one track isn't playing.
Fretless bass, patch 35 bank 0 doesn't play. Same goes for a lot of these...

Those extremely small soundfonts rely on the user having the original soundfont playing hardware, e.g. a ~1995 Soundblaster with some waveforms in ROM, or something 100% compatible. 8 megs probably was the maximum RAM for some popular card back then...

[donnybelfast]

Hi,

I haven't tested it, but I did have an AWE64 gold way back in the day and this link has the soundfonts Creative Labs provided for it in the day I believe, including the 8MB GM - I had the extra memory module so I could use it.

http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=509

Hope this helps

[Sti-Jay]

It doesn't help, but thanks anyway

[Eino]

I just tested a few at random, and they work. I repackaged that sound font files from the ISO.
Here it is for anyone who wants to try them. The file name is 8MBGMSFX.SF2.tar.gz
Unpacked the file size is 7381k.
https://jumpshare.com/v/4hFGU30xGHxzULQOgbtY

It's not high quality but it's a something, It became more in my huge bank of sound font files.

The same thing is also available here.
http://alsa.opensrc.org/8MBGMSFX.SF2

[Sti-Jay]

Hey, that last link is interesting http://alsa.opensrc.org/8MBGMSFX.SF2
If Alsa opensrc is the organization with licence to this they might grant it to LMMS as CC0, or maybe it already is in that licence.

Also it sounded pretty good, all sounds worked. I tried with a soundfont and all the instruments import perfectly, the drums do not, but I have never got that to work in LMMS, so I guess bank 128 isn't standard or LMMS don't read bank info, only patch when importing.

May I say that Windows Media Player's soundfont sounded a lot better on this song, but those sounds are definitively edited (compressed and panned it seems).

Have you tried Musescores soundfont, Eino? Click view full file to download https://github.com/SSMN/MuseScore/blob/ ... mGM6mb.sf2

[redambassador]

I do like the idea of having at least one SF2 / VST (instrument) that comes with LMMS, just so you have *something* out of the box, but maybe we could also include a list of tested SF2s, just like we have a Wiki for the tested VSTs? Maybe a link so those Wiki pages either in the LMMS UI itself or somewhere in the install location? That way you'd provide new people with a place to look for some things to use without increasing the LMMS package size.

Just a thought.

[slapkev]

Unlike LMMS's shady VST support, any given soundfont (in the proper format) is almost guaranteed to work. Your idea would be better executed in a blog post linking to quality soundfonts.

The Wiki is to document LMMS, not provide resources. It's a proper usage thing that past wiki maintainers didn't seem to really understand, hence some of the more generic pages.

[Eino]

Hey, that last link is interesting http://alsa.opensrc.org/8MBGMSFX.SF2
If Alsa opensrc is the organization with licence to this they might grant it to LMMS as CC0, or maybe it already is in that licence.

Have you tried Musescores soundfont, Eino? Click view full file to download https://github.com/SSMN/MuseScore/blob/ ... mGM6mb.sf2

Sorry not to get back here, but better late than never.
I glad to find a candidate, for the cause. lol
Thank you for the link anyway, I already have that.
It would be nice to have sound fonts to work with right out of the box, someday in the future.