What's your favourite MIDI soundfont?

[dial-up]

I'm particularly looking for sound fonts that are old, classic, dated, or nostalgic, but perhaps higher quality than than your typical Sound Blaster/OPL3 and other similar ones.

[KVELLER]

There are some SC-55 soundfonts, if that falls into the category of things you're looking for.

 

The Arachno Soundfont is what I always use, though.

[Woolie Wool]

It even has "soundfonts" inside it in the form of SC-55 and MT-32 maps.

 

[DoomGater]

The SC-55 Soundset  is ok, but the MT-32 sucks badly. BTW sysex-wise it's not compatible.

But best choice is still the good old SCC-1 (or SC-55/155) :-)

 

[Woolie Wool]

I have an SC-55 too, but I like the SC-88 better for most midis.

[DoomGater]

Of course, but for Doom the SC55/155/SCC-1 is best, because the soundtrack was made for them.

[Woolie Wool]

4 minutes ago, DoomGater said:

Of course, but for Doom the SC55/155/SCC-1 is best, because the soundtrack was made for them.

This is a "post your favorite" thread, not "tell other people what to do" thread.

[Reisal]

Weeds GM3(?) does the job.

[leodoom85]

I'm so used to the SGM-V2.01 soundfont that I like it...

[129thVisplane]

Not sure how one would go about extracting those for use on a computer (if anyone has any idea i'll gladly hear it), but I'm quite partial to the soundfonts built into old phones (such as a Nokia 6131 or old Sony Ericsson models) from the pre-smartphone era when phones could still play MIDIs. They might not sound super high quality but I quite enjoy the sound myself.

[taufan99]

Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. ^{Yea fite me m8}

[DoomGater]

4 hours ago, taufan99 said:

Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. ^{Yea fite me m8}

BTW: M$ bought this from Roland...:-)

[Teivman]

OPL

[Cacodemon345]

Roland SC-55.

[DoomGater]

10 hours ago, Woolie Wool said:

This is a "post your favorite" thread, not "tell other people what to do" thread.

Aha..
I generally tend to prefer hardware over any soundfont; the ability to edit the presets (envelopes, filters, modulation, FX etc. )
is most important to me to finetuning an arrangement. So for Doom it is clearly the original SoundCanvas and for most

other MIDI's (if it should be Roland-compatible) it is my SK88Pro (best and most powerful SoundCanvas) . Otherwise:
Yammie's Tyros or Genos do their job astonishingly well, FOR MY TASTE.

 

 

[Redwind]

SGM-V2.01 is my favourite so far.

[Taw Tu'lki]

Roland SC-55 - SC-88, Yamaha S-YXG50 and SGM-V2.01.

[Deadwing]

The roland one that is a higher quality version of the MS soundfont.

[taufan99]

20 hours ago, DoomGater said:

BTW: M$ bought this from Roland...:-)

Yeah, heard that before.

[Marlamir]

I really like eawpats, probably my favourite one

[Ariander]

I'm fan of silverspring15, I liked Arachno and SGM too.