Free Soundfonts

[333maxwell]

SOUNDFONTS

This will be footnote #2 in my inexpensive home recording informational.

I'll explain what soundfonts are, and how to use them, and lead you to free tools to use them and

demonstrate how to use them. In a nutshell soundfonts are actual instruments that have been sampled

and you can assign them to your keyboard or midi compositions.

Not all fonts are created equally, there are some REALLY good fonts in this list, and some marginal

ones. They are all free and very usable however. You can also create your own fonts.

If I had website space available, or I could email anyone really interested, I have a wonderful personal

collection of one hit drum samples, sampled from a 1958 vintage Jazz trap kit, the one I use on most

my stuff of late. It is perfect to load into the loopazoid sampler and can be a really effective (midi)

programable drum machine. Again, this is all legitimae and legal freeware.

It just takes the time to set it up the first time.

Again, this is just a generic collection to use as a footnote in my later tutorial for setting up a lo/no

cost home studio. The fonts here are all free and all scanned and user friendly.

Again, for those that know soundfonts and have the tools to use them I encourage them to have fun (or share

their own font resources).

For those who don't know soundfonts yet, be patient and you will understand them very soon.

Or my name isn't Orville Reddenbacher..

TOOLS

SOUNDFONT PLAYER (the one I use)

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/769.html

Synth Font.. create, edit or play your own fonts

http://www.synthfont.com/

SFPACK (unzip packed fonts)

http://www.personalcopy.com/sfpack.htm

SFARK (Unpacking utility for compressed files in Sfark format)

http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm

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FONTS

Steinway Piano Font (the one I use most often, scroll to bottom of page)

http://www.pianosounds.com/

Guitar Vince

High Quality Guitar font (25mb)

http://www.free-samples-n-loops.com/free-g...soundfonts.html

Multi sampled Ibanex fingered or picked Bass

http://www.bestvst.de//

Jazz Drum Kit, Fender Jazz Bass, clean and distorted guitars, zither, fife

http://www.midisoft.boom.ru/download1.htm

Electric Piano, Jazz guitar

http://www.ntonyx.com/sf_f.htm

Theatre, Cinema, Pipe Organ

http://brucemiles1.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

Piano, Accordion, saxaphone

http://www.personalcopy.com/home.htm

Drums, organs, pianos, synths, misc

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/8644/

Woodwind, brass, symphony, misc

http://www.soundfonts.it/?a=soundfonts

Jazz Guitar soundfont

http://www.thejazzpage.de/index1.html

Large database of Symphony fonts etc

http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/

Another large database of all kinds of instruments

http://www.sf2midi.com/soundfonts/

Lots of orchestra/classical instruments

http://web.archive.org/web/20010926173149/...smartmusic.com/

Akai Grand Piano sondfont (72 MB)

http://www.soundcreationsinc.com/tech/sple...collection.html

Large databank of all kinds of instruments. There is a great 27mb Rhodes font and other goodies.

http://www.fox-gieg.com/rkhive/

Theatre Pipe Organ

http://prosites-allmanmusic.homestead.com/jOrgan.html

Large database of things like bagpipes, vibes, orchestra samples, violins, jaw harps, etc..

http://sounds.resonance.org/patches.py?Action=browse

Edited December 5, 2008 by 333maxwell