Best soundfont currently?

[jj_frap]

Have things changed since 2003?

My requirements are that it play One-Winged Angel properly (or at least close to it) and that it sound at least as good as the PSX version.


What is the best soundfont available that meet these two criteria. (If none exists, what is the best one period?)

[Zack]

http://aaronserv.dyndns.org/hosting/ffsf/download_7.html

This should allow you to play the PC version with the music from the psx

[Aaron]

Be warned while that certainly is cool, some people have problems with it not being completely stable.

[savage-xp]

Ah! use Mp3 Cetra patch... you will listen all songs equal to psx version.

[Marc]

I asked the same question a while ago over in this thread http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=2822&

It has links to two soundfounts.  If you want to try them out I'd use ficedula's tool that enables you to listen to the games midis (forgot what it's called).  it'll give you an idea of how both sound in the game.  Both have their strong and weak points.

I'd rather use a soundfount myself than ff7music because with ff7music, the game crashes more frequently.  And when I'm leveling up in the north cave and I haven't saved in 2 or 3 hours I gets me pretty pissed off when it crashes.  Anyway, these two soundfount sound pretty damn good and it's more stable with those than with ff7music in my experience even though ff7music is a GREAT program.

[Threesixty]

just load that lb2 soundfont that comes with the game. I've forgotten the order. I think you load it last.

If you load it in the wrong order the instrument gets overwritten, with that of the FF7 soundfont or whatever other soundfont you choose to load. I guess you could just load the lb2 by itself...but it's missing a lot of instruments. It just load the instruments for that one song.

However, if you could revert to Win98...it would load the Soundfonts automaticly....WinXP broke that feature, for some reason.

[Sukaeto]

Let me check . . . ah yes, it's still there!

I created this soundfont a while back, when I got sick of the poor quality of the default ones.

It sounds different from the PSX, but still better than the default PC ones.  You don't have to worry about loading lb2 for Safer Sephiroth, the voices are included in that soundfont, without messing up any other songs.

[Threesixty]

Hmm.... I kinda doubt that, but it's probably so negligible you don't notice the Stick sound that the lb2 uses, in place of another intrument.

I remember it being real noticeable in one song...but I can't remember which song, exactly. I want to say that upbeat song at....umm....that mexican sounding town, that I can't remember. That town where the cargo ship goes to. Casa de something or other.

Anyway in one of the songs in FF7...that stick sound is pretty annoying to my ears.

I believe that stick sound I'm refering to is called "woodblock" in the lb2 Soundfont.

[Sukaeto]

Yeah, the choir is on voice 115 (I think is it's number), the woodblock.  What I did to fix the issue with the OWA Instruments f'ing up the other songs was move all the instruments Unique to OWA to another bank, and edit the MIDI file accordingly in Cakewalk.