Discovery Pro and Soundfonts

[Teksonik]

I just became the proud owner or DiscoDSP's Discovery Pro and discovered to my delight that it can load Soundfont files in it's wave osc. Would any Discovery Pro owners be interested in patches created using waves from a General Midi soundfont? I just happened to have downloaded a 32 meg Gm soundfont from:
http://www.ntonyx.com/sf.htm#gm a few days ago, dropped into Discovery's folder and am having some great fun with the waves. Very 80's rompler M1, U200 type of sounds. I'm working on a free bank of sounds using just the included waveforms but I'd also like to work on a separate free bank using this soundfont or another if anyone has a preference. Anyone interested would just have to download the soundfont, drop into the Pro folder and any presets I create using that font should work for everyone (right George or am I forgetting something?) It appears Discovery only loads the soundfont into memory once and all 4 layers can use the waveforms taking up very little memory. Anyway if there is any interest I'll continue to pursue the soundfont based bank and either way will continue to do a VA bank using just the waveforms included with Pro.

I'd love to see someone like Nucleus Sound Labs or Dangerous Bear Underground create some sample content specifically for Discovery Pro. Would be very interesting.






EDIT: And D Pro makes a killer drum loops player. You can have up to 4 loops going at a time, panned, chorus, filter, delay to taste.

[bobsled]

All Teksonik presets are always appreciated.

[Vectorman]

Absolutely, I'd be interested in hearing some interesting patches for Discovery Pro - it's another synth that I snagged on impulse within the last year and have hardly used. (There are a few of those "neglected ones" - the good side to that is that I already have things installed on my hard drive that I can delve into further when I get bored rather than have to purchase anything else for a while, LOL.)

[Teksonik]

All Teksonik presets are always appreciated.

Wow! Thanks for the kind words, that certainly made my day!

Ok here's a quick dozen presets in .fxb format using this free soundfont

http://www.ntonyx.com/sf.htm#gm


You have to download it and put the file into your Discovery Pro Data folder.

Here's the link to the bank:

http://teksonik.googlepages.com/DiscoveryProGM-Tek.zip


Kind of 80's nostalgia.



Let me know how they work and I'll keep making more if interested maybe using a larger GM soundfont..


EDIT: I forgot to mention these work best with 32 or 64 note polyphony selected and 2 X oversampling. They can be heavy on the cpu but my QuadCore Q6600 can handle them with no problem.

[bobsled]

Just ran through these very usable sounds, wanted to say "thanks" before getting back to playing with them some more.