Arioch Posted January 4, 2002 Dmitryi Sizonenco sends word that he has released a .sf2 soundfont specifically tuned for use with classic games such as Doom, Heretic, etc. The soundfont is called Silverspring, and is about 60MB in size. He provided a link to a sample recorded using the soundfont, which is a recording of D_E2M1, "I Sawed the Demons". The soundfont itself can be downloaded from here. In case you do not have a Soundblaster Live or Audigy, or one of the several other sound cards that support the .sf2 format, the download comes with a small software MIDI synthesizer program that can use .sf2 soundfonts. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted January 4, 2002 Worked now. Hmm... actually don't think it's too impressive. For the *real* sound of DOOM, get http://www.doomworld.com/fredrik/mp3/doom/d_e1m1.mp3 :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted January 4, 2002 fredrik: that's not the REAL sound of doom. You will need a Roland SC-55 to achieve that. 0 Share this post Link to post
YicklePigeon Posted January 4, 2002 I once got Vintage Dreams SF2, converted it to ARL, argajksfhasfkjasdhaskjga. listening to this soundfont...Vintage Dreams sounds like it's worth 10 stars... 0 Share this post Link to post
Moonflower Posted January 4, 2002 The guitar was way out of proportion and the start of the sample sounded like some sort of brass instrument... the drums don't sound all that exciting either. Meh... I can't even get the soundfont. 0 Share this post Link to post
Moonflower Posted January 4, 2002 For the real sound of DooM you need to ask Bobby Prince to play it live :P 0 Share this post Link to post
bitstate Posted January 4, 2002 actually quite impressive :) keep it up... hard to find descent soundfonts... 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted January 4, 2002 scragadeliv: Bobby Prince composed the doom songs on his Roland SC-55. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted January 4, 2002 fredrik: howcome that mp3 doesn't sound _good_ then? :P 0 Share this post Link to post
YicklePigeon Posted January 5, 2002 Just search MP3.com for Bobby Prince, go to his page, download At Doom's Gate LIVE :] Like I done so so soooooo long ago 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted January 5, 2002 I don't see how this soundfont is any better at playing DOOM music than any of the other many grossly-bloated 60MB soundfonts out there. You'll run out of cache after playing a few maps unless you use a program such as Megafont, which would cause intensive memory swapping. The 12MB soundfonts sound better than this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted January 5, 2002 I just played through all of E1 with this soundfont and I don't notice any cache problems ... Oh yeah, now gimme your soundfont. 0 Share this post Link to post
Law Posted January 5, 2002 Jesus!! I think I'll stick with my synth! I would like the small .sf2 player though... 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted January 5, 2002 Don't bother, that player was rather .... off-key when I tried it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Seidhepriest Posted January 5, 2002 Well, first thing... a tiny anecdote. Years ago, I was bored with typical metal and was looking for something new. I got to the music store and asked the salesman if he knew something different from the mainstream, but heavy and melodic enough. He played back Godflesh' "Merciless", calling Godflesh as the "band who have guitars that sound like brass". That made me a big fan of Godflesh and especially "Pure", the album with merciless, sterile machine percussion and monstrous, overwhelming, free guitars. The Doom soundtrack has the same quality as Godflesh' music: sounds half-human and half-machine, and has a similar roomy, sterile feeling to it as early '90s Godflesh. So I thought the "monster lead" guitar for Doom should have the same bright, brassy touch and be, well, overwhelming and monstrous. A nice demo would be <a href=http://shipyard.levels4you.com/sounds/sign-of-evil.mp3>Sign Of Evil</a>. Another reason for making the soundfont was that there's no soundfont out there with an overdriven guitar heavy & realistic enough that I like. Most sound too dry and weak to my taste. But, of course, sounding is a matter of taste and for people who don't use listening to Carcass, Arch-Enemy, Godflesh, etc. the soundfont will sound weird. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Seidhepriest Posted January 5, 2002 1. If you've 128 MBs of RAM, the 62 MBs soundfont fits in nicely even with static caching. 2. The other demo's correct link is: http://shipyard.levels4you.com/sounds/sign-of-evil.mp3 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Seidhepriest Posted January 5, 2002 Another free MIDI renderer that should work better, Timidity: http://vincent.pagel.free.fr/TIMIDITY/index.html 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Julian Mehnle Posted January 6, 2002 Sorry, I know it's a bit late, but I couldn't create an account for the news commenting feature, so... I have set up a mirror for the soundfont (which I like quite much) and for the various demos: http://files.mehnle.net/silverspring.zip http://files.mehnle.net/sawed.mp3 http://files.mehnle.net/sign-of-evil.mp3 http://files.mehnle.net/e1m1.mp3 I hope it's faster for you than the original server was for me... 0 Share this post Link to post