#soundfont

[scorchrend]

ITS DONE. Guns Blazing but in the pokemon black and white soundfont. i spent two whole nights on this

the art of axis i drew for the vid :)

[mortifiedandawesome]

Toxic - Britney Spears (Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

[veetri-bitcrush]

Also on SoundCloud:

I've been meaning to try this for a while and the perfect excuse came in the form of a meme.

PSound is able to rip every sample stored inside the game data files, and since music in the game is sequenced, all the instrument samples were there for the taking.

So I combed through the files to land on the right sample for each instrument, fully remade the Encounter theme in Reaper to use as a reference and then landed on this version for the actual lols.

[skarrufeathers]

Thank you, UTY team

[victamined]

Made a new music with earthbound soundfont :o

I made the monster and background myself, look at it go !!!

[awfulmidis]

Am I cool, now kids? Happy Halloween!!!

[ibbandflow]

made some cute looping gifs to go along with each song from my new album!

[earlgraytay]

So this Youtube channel (SoundFontGuy) has been making covers of Majora's Mask songs in the Silent Hill 2 soundfont/using SH2 samples, and holy shit. Holy shit? This unironically fucks.

Please go watch his Silent Mask covers and drop a lycansubscribe if you like them? It's criminal that he's only got like 2k subscribers.

[soapdispensersalesman]

Wish I knew earlier about the Venus soundfont, it would've made a dope addition to the sound design of my song The Search Engine is your Friend

ewaja just came across more sample sources and I'm definitely gonna be using them for future songs, and it's only more reason to eventually get into Earthbound/Mother once I finish my backlog of media to completely immerse into (currently binging Persona 4 Golden)

[sylvyspritii]

Oh I didn't realise it had to be a question question, sorry!

I do have a question then: you're a music creator right? And you did some work for SiIvaGunner? There's some ideas I have often for doing some instrumentation swapping in music I hear, making one song have the instruments/sound font from another. However, I'm really not experienced at all in music production and it can feel a bit daunting trying to understand it, I'm not sure where to start.

What are some resources you'd recommend to someone trying to start music work like that? Both the editing software itself (is GarageBand still a thing? Does it cost money?) and also how to go through songs and figure out stuff like what instruments they're using to repurpose them?

No worries! I just prefer actual questions over random meme pictures, i have no idea what i can add to those or how i could respond besides "ok" Yes, i'm part of SiIva, but i was more active in the earlier years I'm mostly busy with original compositions for games nowadays If you want to make melody/soundfont/MIDIswaps, the first thing you will need is a DAW, Garageband will work fine (i think?), but i can't say for sure, i use FL Studio myself, so i'll answer with my knowledge based on using FL Studio primarily For the sake of this tutorial, we will focus on games that used sequenced music, which usually means MIDI files and soundbanks/soundfonts (for more advanced non-sequenced/MIDI recreations, you will usually have to recreate songs from scratch, or invest in expensive hardware in the case of Touhou music for example) There is an FL Studio demo available, it's pretty good, but personally i just reccomend obtaining it legally since it's pretty cheap (and if that is not an option, then, well, yarr harr, you know (note to cover my ass from a legal perspective: i am a professional and i do not use pirated software)) Download VGMTrans (and the ROM of the game you wanna fuck around with, legally of course (wink wink)), it's software that can extract MIDI (the notes) and .dls (the instruments) files (you can also extract .sf2 files, which are the more traditional "soundfont" format, but .dls is easier for editing existing songs from games since the MIDI data and the .dls can get imported together to be more accurate, more on that later (basically, export .dls for accuracy, export .sf2 for fucking around if you just want 1 instrument from a game)) Okay, so now you have a DAW (we use FL Studio in this example), the MIDI file, and the .dls file So, now, open FL Studio, drag the MIDI file in a new project, and then it will ask you what you want to import it as (do not use FLEX, use MIDI OUT with LSD) (fuck FLEX all my buddies hate FLEX) Then you will see this thing

Okay so click the little folder icon on the top left, and then select the correct .dls file you exported for that MIDI file with VGMTrans Then, if you did everything correctly, you will hear the MIDI file WITH the correct instruments from the game, and it will sound (mostly) like how the original game sounds From there, you can start, then, you can edit the little bits, change the instruments easily, change the notes, and add funny fleentstones if you want So, tl;dr quick version: 1. Download FL Studio 2. Download VGMTrans 3. Throw ROM file in VGMtrans 4. Export the MIDI and .dls data from a song from the ROM 5. Throw MIDI in FL Studio, choose "MIDI OUT with DLS" 6. Choose .dls soundbank file with the little folder icon 7. The song will now sound like how it is in the game (or at least, close enough), so now you can go crazy and replace instruments and/or melodies and have fun

[snertlet]

Spent the morning messing around with Earthbound's soundfont to make a creepy crypt sort of bit of music inspired by @plastiboo's Vermis

[acidhydraart]

& btw here's a WIP. getting a better understanding of keys/scales, which is nice

[hazzysnax]

If someone was ever to compile a Bugsnax-esque SoundFont, that would be cool.

(I remember hearing from somewhere that the soundtrack of Bugsnax used a Juno/Yamaha synthesizer as its main synth, but goddammit, I can't seem to find the original statement)

For non-music people, SoundFonts are typically used to make songs with instruments from known video games. They come in one bank-file, and that file contains the instruments. This example song has all of its elements to be from Drawn to Life: Next Chapter.

[neitherabaron]

I can’t stop listening to those videos that remake classic songs and albums but with the Mario 64 soundfont. It’s like layered nostalgia. A nostalgic lasagne if you will.

The best ones are the ones that have a) payed close attention to the original and have tried to recreate all the *elements* of the song in the Mario soundfont BUT b) have the imagination and courage to not always pick the MIDI instrument from the soundfont that closest resembles the original instrument, instead choosing sounds that are very unique to Mario 64 where it’s appropriate…

Which means that the best ones have the depth ad richness of the original arrangements but SOUND like Mario. Stunning. Here are my favourites:

[skarrufeathers]

ALL NEW [must be in mp3 file format] STRAIGHT FROM MY [soundclown]

[victamined]

Music with water vibes !!