PSA: Since the OP's links are broken, I added a note to it with a link to a reply with a still-working link.

Recently I found that someone has made a SoundFont of the ESFM synthesizer and it sounds quite similar although not exactly the same.

Has anyone tried this ESFM SoundFont? https://dropbox.com/s/s7muqffctbty4ju/ESFM.SF2?dl=1

It's a 703 MB file though made by some Japanese guy, I use it in Virtual MIDI Synth and then load the SF2 file in it. Give it a try, the MIDI sounds really nostalgic with it, quite similar to the original hardware ESFM.

autoexecdotbat wrote on 2016-02-26, 16:04:

realnc wrote on 2016-02-17, 05:36:

You know what would be funny? A soundfont where all patches are someone trying to mimic instruments with their mouth. We could call it the Bobby McFerrin SoundFont, and it would sound like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih20Tx-fNJs

I agree with you. I'd love a soundfont like that, too!

Holy spaghetti, somebody actually made such a soundfont 😁 "Acapella GM/GS" by Juicestain:

https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/712

"This is a soundfont where I sing everything. It is GM Compatible, so you can play it with MIDIs."

Does anyone know what the heck this is:

https://archive.org/details/sc-55-sf2

"This contains the General MIDI and drum kit presets of the Roland SC-55. Each preset was deepsampled"

🤔

My favorite SC-55 SoundFont is this.

It's the closest I can hear to my real SC-55MKII, especially when playing games like Heretic and DOOM.

Malik wrote on 2022-08-01, 23:15:

My favorite SC-55 SoundFont is this.

It's the closest I can hear to my real SC-55MKII, especially when playing games like Heretic and DOOM.

Yeah, I've used it too before I got the Sound Canvas VA to work in Linux. But I'm curious as to what is meant with "deepsampling". And it's several GBs. Is it machine learning related? A web search turns up nothing.

realnc wrote on 2022-08-02, 05:56:

Malik wrote on 2022-08-01, 23:15:

My favorite SC-55 SoundFont is this.

It's the closest I can hear to my real SC-55MKII, especially when playing games like Heretic and DOOM.

Yeah, I've used it too before I got the Sound Canvas VA to work in Linux. But I'm curious as to what is meant with "deepsampling". And it's several GBs. Is it machine learning related? A web search turns up nothing.

I checked it out.
It's just a standard set of SC-55 instruments, but with a lot of samples.
And when I say "a lot", I mean "A WHOLE BLOODY LOT".