Soundfont MIDI Player

SoundFont MIDI Player is a powerful MIDI player/router and real time MIDI synth combo, especially useful for Soundblaster (Live, Audigy, X-fi) users who can load soundfonts automatically and real time. From version 2.0 BassMIDI output mode enables this feature to anyone.

MIDI Player's Online FAQ/How-to

Current development can be followed on Vogons forum

Features:
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• 1. Fully configurable MIDI in and out ports.
• 2. Real time program and bank modification on any MIDI channel.
• 3. Real Time effects on any MIDI channel.
• 4. Mute and solo on any channels.
• 5. Variable Tempo and Pitch during playback.
• 6. Virtual Piano (F1-F8 Function keys for octave change, right click for note name).
• 7. Chord mode for Virtual Piano and MIDI input.
• 8. Send Sysex for Synth (GM, GS, XG, GM2, NX and custom).
• 9. MIDI send and receive over Net.
• 10. Karaoke MIDI file, xmi, rmi, mds, mus, miz file support.
• 11. Module files (mod, xm, s3m, it) playback support via realtime converting.
• 12. Bassmidi output mode.
• 13. Spectrum Analyzer.
• 14. Record to wave, mp3 (or any acm codecs) capability .
• 15 .Real time soundfont and SysEx loading from playlist (same named sf2/syx, or folder.sf2/folder.syx).
• 16. Supports embedded SF2 soundfonts.
• 17. Scale effect settings (transpose notes to different scales).
• 18. Supports Cakewalk/Sonar instrument definition (.ins) files for preset names and capital tone fallback.
• 19. Supports capturing/recording from MIDI input including SysEx messages.
• 20. Supports VST effect/visualization and VSTi instrument plugins.
• 21. Includes MIDI event viewer/debugger for low level debugging/editing purposes.
• 22. Fully supports Windows 9x, XP, 7, 8, 10 moreover Wine.

version 6.0

1. Added title/row numbering to playlist.

2. Added MIDI data recording/sequencing from MIDI input capability. You can find the 'Record' button in Event viewer/Debugger dialog.

3. Added capability to edit Meta and SysEx events in Event viewer/Debugger.

4. Added saving MIDI Text/Lyrics as Lyrics (*.lrc) or simple text files (if you save MIDI to Mp3 now you can have timed lyrics in Mp3 players that support .lrc files).

5. Added capability of loading/saving embedded Soundfonts in case of Riff MIDI files. You can save such files from the Event viewer/Debugger.

6. Improved file type detection. Now you can load supported files with any (even unknown) extensions.

7. Added displaying detected format and original extension to Event viewer/Debugger.

8. Added sample rate selection to Device Settings dialog for non-Bass recording mode.

9. In shuffle mode Next also shuffles and Prev jumps back to previously played files.

10. Shuffle and Repeat states are now saved and restored.

11. Added MS sign to Mode column of Playlist in case of detected Base/Extended MS specific channel setup.

12. Added support for XG Display Letters and MT-32 LCD SysEx messages. You can see them in Text/Lyrics dialog. Both local playback and MIDI Input work.

13. Selected ordering mode (by clicking on playlist's column header) is now reflected on playlist's column header.

14. Added force manual mode/override message for Program Change messages.

15. Added 'Send messages to all channels' option to Patch hotkeys.

16. Added Tohou Loop points support (CC# 2/4).

17. Added basic ID3 v1 tags to converted Mp3 files. This helps Minilyrics to associate Lyrics to Mp3 files.

18. Fixed Mids/Mds parsing for files that have 0 formatflags.

19. Fixed MIDI input related MT-32 game problems.

20. Fixed prevented system shutdown when started in minimized to tray mode.

21. Fixed recalculation of playlist items overall time in case of drag & drop operations (delete related error).

22. Added Munt VSTi 2.6.

23. Reverted Bass libraries because of some bugs in newer versions.

24. Added 8-bit bitmap option to Visualization form (only to x86 version since its main goal is to provide better performance for retro systems).

25. Added proper palette handling to Visualization form in 8-bit screen mode. (only to x86 version since it is also for retro systems).

26. Other minor fixes and enhancements.