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- coolsoft
- Posts: 1972
- Joined: March 25, 2012 - 01:19
I already thought about including an SF2 file into VirtualMIDISynth, but a good soundfont is 20Mb (at least).
Actually VMS setup is about 2Mb, so this will increase setup file size a lot.
Consider that VMS is downloaded about 500 times a day... and my only income are ads and donations (and I won't be rich with them ;)).
Including a download option into setup is not possible, because their web addresses could change unexpectedly (I do not host soundfont files).
That said, after downloading VMS you must download a SF2 of your choice.
I suggest you ChoriumRevA (listed above): it's a good quality one and easy to extract (it's a RAR archive, can be opened with WinRAR or 7-Zip).
Download that RAR file, extract the contained SF2 file to a position of your choice (say Documents), then open VirtualMIDISynth configurator --> Soundfonts tab --> + button --> select the soundfont file --> ready to play.
When you'll be more skilled you can try the other ones, which are usually sfArk packed, so you need to unpack them.
My preferred one is FluidR3_GM.
- Greg Taylor
- Anonymous user
Thank you for your reply -- I really didn't expect to hear back so soon. Let me sift through the information you provided and see if I can get things up and running. You mention WinRAR and 7-Zip -- I assume these are free unzipping downloads?? I'll check them out, too.
I'll come back to you later to give you some feedback. Thanks again!
- coolsoft
- Posts: 1972
- Joined: March 25, 2012 - 01:19
Yes they are.
WinRAR will only manage RAR archives, while 7-Zip can uncompress a lot more archive types: 7z, zip, rar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, cab...
And it's free and open source.
- v.muller
- Posts: 17
- Joined: March 12, 2013 - 16:32
Supported File Types. WinRAR handles these compression formats: RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7-Zip and Z.
EDIT: fixed supported formats.
- coolsoft
- Posts: 1972
- Joined: March 25, 2012 - 01:19
Haven't used it for ages, since I think 7z is more efficient.
Thanks for the clarification.
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