Better Music for GM ScummVM (and DOSBox) games

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Re: Better Music for GM ScummVM (and DOSBox) games

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Subbi wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:40 pm Catched-on this thread a bit late, but I've been using FluidR3 soundfont which always sound well to me.

Any experience with this one vs what is now recommended?
I've never been too fond of FluidR3. While it has some good sounds, like many other soundfonts it just sounds kinda unbalanced to me, both in terms of volume differences and quality of the instruments. I always liked SGM-V2.01 for old games and General MIDI playback, maybe check that one out. Also, the Crisis Soundfont which has some VERY high quality sounds, but many of them aren't really suitable for live playback so I took the best sounds from there, adjusted them a little and replaced some instruments in the SGM. I eventually added lots of instruments from other soundfonts too.

I do recommend it to anyone to assemble their own personal soundfont, based on your favorite free soundfonts that are floating around and what games you want to play with them. It's fun and you end up with something unique that sounds great to your ears. :mrgreen:
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Re: Better Music for GM ScummVM (and DOSBox) games

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Hello,

Unfortunately the website with the "UHD3.7z" is offline, does anyone still have the SoundFont?


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@pcblizzard

I may have.
Have to check, but won't be able to do do so before next Week.
Maybe someone else beats me to it?
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Wayback machine works for this case (edit: fixed the link):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180603220 ... sc/UHD3.7z

Also the FatBoy soundfont site (https://fatboy.site) is down / defunct?
Latest soundfont is here (via wayback machine again):
https://web.archive.org/web/20220124174 ... -latest.7z
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Thank you very much, that helped me a lot (although I know the wayback machine but sometimes it hangs somewhere :D)
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cwadge wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:14 pmIf you're looking for a SoundFont which isn't limited by the size and complexity constraints of UHD, you might prefer the FatBoy SoundFont I've been working on. If so, take a look at the end of this thread for development progress.[/size]
Thank you for the amazing work and dedication. Just a question, do you consider UHD finished? There hasn't been an update since 2018... although disappearance of your fatboy website is also worrying. :-/
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Just a heads up that there's a project to emulate the Roland SC-55 called EmuSC here.

This is a full emulation in the style of Munt for the MT-32. It's not ready for prime time yet but looks extremely promising and should give the right sounds for classic General Midi games.

It does need roms dumped from your own SC-55 though, similar to Munt.
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Hello, the link of your sounfount seems dead.
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The file is still available through archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180603220 ... sc/UHD3.7z

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Happily there is archive.org, thank you rootfather.
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