feature request: ability to use windows' built in midi player
Hi all. This isn't a high priority, but it might be nice to have an option of (I guess instead of using an existing SoundFont) using the windows built in midi playback, which seems quite high quality.
It is possible to actually extract windows' sf2 file in xp [1], but not in windows 7.
Thanks.
-r
[1] http://superuser.com/questions/107255/wheres-windows-xp-standard-midi-s…
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The SoundFont comes with the sound card on your computer. As far as I can tell, it is not related to Windows Media player (since playback sounds slightly different).
In reply to The SoundFont comes with the by David Bolton
My guess is that XP uses gm.dls (DLS is MIDI organization's equivalent of sf2 soundfont). Some midi players (such as SynthFont) can use it as well as sf2. You can find it in C:\Windows]System32\DRIVERS and a few other places.
On Vista (and oddly enough, not on Windows 7), you can find a soundfont Ct2mgm.sf2 in both C:\Windows\System32
and C:\Windows\SysWOW64. I suspect it uses the same sound samples as gm.dls does and thus should sound very similar.
Given all the free soundfonts available on the Internet, that would not be my choice. But that's entirely a personal taste.
In reply to gm.dls and Ct2mgm.sf2 by yingdat
Yeah good point. I was able to find (and use) 2gmgsmt.sf2 which I found on an XP box
http://superuser.com/questions/107255/wheres-windows-xp-standard-midi-s…
It works well, so is a good work around, I guess, to not having to tweak the code at all.
In terms of personal taste, thus far for me it's been far nicer than the 5 or so free sf2 files I've tried, at least for piano. You should try it.
-r