Bump, does anyone know?

Is there a midi player that someone can confirm definitely supports playing 24-bit samples in .sf2 files (not including ones that support them but throw away 8 bits).

Thanks do you know in a typical GS soundfont, how many of those extra instruments are new recordings or are any going to be the same recordings from the GM soundfont with effects applied? Also is it correct that you can play xg files with a gs soundfont but not gs files with an xg soundfont? For the …

Is there a big difference between GM and GS If you are playing some GS midi files with a GM only soundfont (that does have GS drumkits)?

Ok thanks. Lots of the music I am listening to is GM or GS but I never heard it on the original sound canvas and I don't really mind if it sounds a bit different from how to original game sounded, I just want quality sounds. So probably soundfonts are the way to go, which I have already. I bought a …

Thanks for all the replies and info. So for my use (to listen to game midis and other midis for hifi) I would be better off with a large soundfont than a sc-55. I was just curious because there is one for sale nearby and someone said that even a expensive high quality soundfont would be 'vastly …

I am thinking of buying a Roland sound canvas 55 or 88 but I am wondering about the 32khz limitation. Does it have noticeably less high treble than a modern GM soundfont setup where played on good quality speakers/headphones.

Thanks, I was trying Timidity in windows, I only just installed it an added 1 soundfont sf2 then I played a midi file and it worked but when I changed precision to 24 bit it made a high pitched sound while playing. So I tried some other output settings and none of them seemed to have any sound …

Thanks just getting started with Timidity in windows, just stuck on a problem with an error message. When I put it on 24 bit output it doesn't play properly so I installed asio4all but then I get an error saying 'Couldn't open port audio (asio) output.wav'. It might be better in linux but last time …

Ok thanks, it looks like Linux is the way to go for midi player configurability.

Seems that all the programs replace any GS instrument with a gm one, I think. I don't have any testing program that can even choose GS instruments but in some midi files that have gs instruments they definitely sound very different when the gm one is put on top.

Does anyone know if there is a midi file player where I can replace any instrument including GS ones with a custom soundfont including drum kits? The closest I found was Xmplay where I can replace any of the 128 GM instruments but not drums or GS as far as I can see. It's just to play classic game …

Thanks, so if I put the GM one below the GM/GS one I won't be giving priority to a general midi instrument over a gs one that is a version of the general one?

Before I knew that much about midi I bought a GM soundfont not realising I should have bought the GM/GS version. But I have some other GM/GS soundfonts so I want to know is there a way to stack them so that it will always use the instrument from the GM soundfont unless it is a GS instrument then it …

Hello, I want to listen to midis (ie classic game music and other midis) in a hifi setting I have the jazman gm soundfont and a few others. For example you can download some very large piano soundfonts. But for listening to midi GM and GS in a hifi settings can I really get better sound quality with …