KVR Audio

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:05 pm

I have a bunch of midi files I need to render into audio. What is the highest quality Gm/GS playback synth or other app on OSX for that? Simple is good too. Does anyone even make General midi synths anymore? As a plugin?

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:33 pm

Mac osx has a built in sf2 (soundfont) player, under the included AU effects.
Just find a great, free GM soundfont to dl, then use that.
It should be the last AU in the list there. It's the only instrument (non-fx).
Apple Music Device...or something.
That's just for sounds.
Of course you would load the midi file into your daw to play it.

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:40 pm

Any suggestions for the soundfont itself?

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:52 pm

I have a few good GM sf2's but I'd need to did them up off a backup to see their names.
I do remember the MerlinGM sf2 was pretty good, and a small size too. Try that one. The AirFont one is good, but pretty large.
here's the gm sf2 page at hammersound
http://www.hammersound.com/cgi-bin/soun ... tLength=15

Here's some other gm sf2
http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/coll ... soundfonts

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:56 pm

ok. So nobody makes a plugin or program that can do GM/GS without digging around and finding sondfonts, etc?

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:13 pm

Dewdman42 wrote:ok. So nobody makes a plugin or program that can do GM/GS without digging around and finding sondfonts, etc?

Don't know of any, but maybe I'll do some searching, and post something.
Just remember, you could find a cheap GM hardware sound module on ebay or someplace else.

GM/GS player for OSX-which is best?