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Evan · Post by **Evan** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:10 pm

I am looking for a VSTi, preferably low-cost of freeware, to play back GM MIDI files.

A multitimbral soundfont player would be great as I have downloaded some freeware .sf2 libraries some time ago.

I was going to use SFZ but I've heard about problems with multicore CPUs.

I am using Reaper on 64bit Windows 7 OS.

Any reliable solutions out there?

Thanks

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:13 pm

SuperCore will have an expansion set made up of reliable GM sounds and percussion. However, it is a bit of a way off.

All SuperCore expansions will be quite inexpensive, so look for it in the future.

SuperCore, when it will be released, will be found here:

www.supersynths.com

Mike

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:41 pm

SynthFont

premiumcrap · Post by **premiumcrap** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:34 am

http://rekkerd.org/terry-west-releases-take1/

try this one. it has even "adsr envelope shaping).

www.myspace.com/tombalcony

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:30 pm

Roland VSC.

Cakewalk TTS-1.

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:49 pm

Or get the SFZ patch that means it works multi-core. No one knows why Cakewalk don't make this available.
http://web.archive.org/web/200707152203 ... /freeware/
Get sfz.zip and replace the DLL from sfz197.exe with the content; it's a straight recompile for multi-core.

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:42 pm

pljones wrote:Or get the SFZ patch that means it works multi-core. No one knows why Cakewalk don't make this available.
http://web.archive.org/web/200707152203 ... /freeware/
Get sfz.zip and replace the DLL from sfz197.exe with the content; it's a straight recompile for multi-core.

sfz player isn't multitimbral is it?

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:13 pm

It's multitimbral in the sense it has 16 MIDI channels and each can be on a separate Program within the one Soundfont.

Of course, you can load multiple copies -- it's a DLL, so it's mostly shared code and, if you load the same samples twice, they're shared too. Each separate instance can have a soundfont loaded.

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:00 pm

pljones wrote:It's multitimbral in the sense it has 16 MIDI channels and each can be on a separate Program within the one Soundfont.
Of course, you can load multiple copies -- it's a DLL, so it's mostly shared code and, if you load the same samples twice, they're shared too. Each separate instance can have a soundfont loaded.

never got to try it as multitimbral sf2 player
and do u know if SFZ format supports multitimbrality and if yes what the opcodes for this are?

GM VSTi?