Can someone tell me the name of this soundfont?

• Jul 14, 2018 - 23:29

I updated Musescore recently, after not knowing there was an update for the past about year or so. However long I've had it installed. Anyways, I have an extreme dislike of the new default soundfont. I've checked out and tried the FluidR3Mono_GM2_315.sf2 soundfont, but it seems to have no difference with the new General.sf3 soundfont. I'm going to upload an mp3 file of the project I can no longer work on from the soundfont being unsuitable for my ears, so if I could get an identification of it, that would be great. Thankie in advance.

-Epiphany

Postscript: It appears that mp3 files cant be shared on this forum. Seems a bit strange, but I'll just drop a link to soundcloud instead: https://soundcloud.com/stevecraftblocks/13a/s-8nhlA

Postpostscript: Some of my opinion on the newest soundfont: Really, loving the percussion, its gotten really improved from some of the clinky sounds from before on the marimba, although snaps and the like are still just hits on a block or something. I intensely dislike just about everything else. The piano sounds more unnatural than before, trumpets and clarinets clash really hard, rather than creating nice harmonies. I don't know how that happened at all.

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• Jul 15, 2018 - 04:02

Not sure what version you were using before, but there haven't been any huge changes to the soundfont since the release of 2.0 over three years ago. For 2.2 we switched from FluidR3 to MsueScore_General, but realistically, the majority of the sounds are the same, as you've noticed. So if you were using something from before 2.0 - like 1.3, released over five years ago - the soundfont you are accustomed is presumably the one that came with that release: TimGM6mb. See the Handbook under "Soundfonts" for links. That was a very small soundfont, so it was nowhere near as relasitc as FluidR3 or MuseScore_General (which are indeed quite similar overall), but it did have some qualities some people liked.

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