ff8 soundfonts

[Elitist1]

amazing, 24 replies and no one bothered to answer the topic questions.

hey, at least my posts are popular.

anyway:

are these files the correct size ?

am i missing any files ( yes, they are not soundfonts ) ?

what is the correct order to load these into creative audio hq to get the best quality sound from first to last ?

[Aaron]

Gragh, you don't even need to use AudioHQ in FF8.  It's all done automatically with the Microsoft Synthesizer, unless you changed something.  And you have the correct files, and there's no reason why you wouldn't if you just installed the game.

[Threesixty]

I believe I answered your question (sarcasm aside)...... as well as Rubicant. And the discussion between Mofokubik and Rubicant, answered them too....


A Summary would be:
Those files you found "are" Soundfonts, in a way. They are DirectX Soundfonts, and have nothing to do with "Creative" or "AudioHQ" (except maybe for that synthgm.sf2, but lets not go there.). None should really, concern you. Especially in any type of loading order, or the size....

FF8PC does the loading for you, without any problems...no workaround to solve in getting better music into FF8. It's just a simple overwriting of files, to get better instruments.

Read the bottom of my previous post..... Then just use Samuel Slight's FF8 patch; I left you a link. There should be a readme file in that download. And if there isn't, you just need to unzip the patch in the directory where FF8.dls is in.

Like I said before...you have to, sometimes, read deeper, than just the surface....what's "amazing", as you put it, is that you didn't.

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[Mofokubik]

I wasnt arguing that liveware would be able to load dls files. Im just angry that liveware doesnt exist anymore.

Jeez, you read less than I do

I dont know where you get the impression that im judging people either.
You need to stop pulling these ideas out of your ass and quit putting words into my mouth

[Threesixty]

LOL.
I just thought of an old cartoon that I saw about 20 years ago....(maybe, I should just keep this to myself....ah...what the hell, I already started writing.)

It's a picture of a woman....her hair is all messed up, she has piles of paperwork on her desk, and she's is looking up at you while, massaging her forehead. And the caption above her?

"I have only one nerve left......and your on it!"

Looks like a lot of us are at that point. But then again, this is the only time I actually enjoy reading these things. It's like driving by an accident...you just "have to" take a peek when you drive by it. And if you can actually get out and talk to the camera crew....that's even better.  :wicked:


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should I show this....umm....I'm going to become and ini·ti·a·tor, but I can't let this slip by....I just can't.....

With the newer drivers, any sb live can load a sf2, sfk, or dls file into its memory. Yes it is the one in audio hq. It works with both dls level 1 and level 2 files, and works perfect.(fo' windowz-xp)

Last edited by Mofokubik on 2003-06-23 08:02; edited 1 time in total

Looks suspicious, no? Maybe you should have just deleted, instead of edited...LOL

[Mofokubik]

i didnt edit anything out, i put in the windowz xp part to be more clear on the subject. because the xp drivers can load dls files.

[Goku7]

these are all of the soundfont files that i have found in the ff8 cds and in the ff8 program files :

1. ff8.dls ( 7.88 mb )

2. gm16.dls ( 3.28 mb )

3. synthgm.sf2 ( 44 kb )

are these files the correct size ?

For the most part, those sizes seem correct.

However, to add to what's stated as correct sizes, the FF8.dls file should be ~9.2MB AFTER you patch it using my Revision2 DLS update on it.

I'm only saying this, so people don't look at the file size discrepency and start thinking something is wrong, LOL.

[Elitist1]

i'm going to download someone's homemade soundfont from another one of my posts.

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