![]() Not so high quality by today standards but completely XG compatible. The sf2 format is tightly bound to GM/GS so it's almost impossible to fully implement XG sound with it.īut full GS compatible soundfonts are also rare.įor old pre-GM DOS game midis use Munt Roland MT-32 emulator (almost perfect).įor GS midis try the recently released Roland Sound Canvas VA (perfect SC-55/88 emulation).įor XG midis try to find Yamaha S-YXG50 softsynth (works only with XP) or its recently released Portable VSTi version. These variation banks are enabled by playing back special SysEx containing MIDI files, for example GS32.MID (included in the SCC-1 Utility Software), prior to loading a software title. If you would like to hear how a GS/XG midi is really intended to sound you should not use sf2 soundfonts. CM-32P and MT-32 Emulation Since the SC-55 has no programmable memory, CM-32P and MT-32 emulation is done by providing the same sound arrangement as the preset sounds of actual devices. So if a midi file targets specifically XG (especially if using sysex messages for patches, banks, effects) then it will sound bad in GS and vice versa. The most important ones are the different bank switching mechanism (MSB vs LSB) and sysex messages. ![]() However, with some minor NAME tweaks (like adding a "1" to some names where a "1" was assumed in the 8850 [see patch 25, under guitars, in 8850 manual - "nylon gt.") and augmenting with an additional GS tones where SC55 didn’t' have a tone (i.e., adding in a 128 more GS tones to the usual GM base of 128 patches so that I7 has 256 GM2 tones)įurther, looking at the lists I think someone at Roland took the basic SC55 tone bank LIST as the starting point for the I7 GM set and replaced some tones with better tones moving "up" to better tones where available (i.e., from tones in SC55 to SC88 to SC8850) - again (to be redundant) with minor renaming and adding in GS tones from the to round out total Integra7 GM2 set to 256 patches.There are many differences. A short comparison of a few instruments on the Roland Sound Canvas real hardware and software Virtual Sound Canvas.The Virtual Sound Canvas is Rolands soft. Interestingly, both Virtual Sound Canvas and Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth seem to use SC-7/RAP-10-based choir samples rather than the more realistic ones heard in SC-55 recordings. ![]() Bouncing between (starting at) page 25 of "Integra Sound List.pdf" and the "8850.pdf" (I own both SC-8850 and Integra 7, as well as XV-5080 and Fantom XR - LOL) but easier to use the manuals then looking at displays, it seems to be that the list from the I7 manual called "GM2 Tone (PCM Synth Tone)" is a MIXTURE of SC55, SC88 and SC8850 maps. So it seems that the Hexen CD tracks were not recorded on an SC-55 at all, but rather a Roland SC-7 module or RAP-10 sound card. ![]()
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