7.5 SoundFont Resources

Freepats is a project dedicated to creating a free and open set of instrument patches, in any format, that can be used with softsynths.

GeneralUser GS is a GM and GS compatible SoundFont bank for composing or playing MIDI files.

Percussion-SF @ ArachnoSoft has some nice sf2 for special percussion.

7.5.1 SoundFont tools

Polyphone is a free program that will allow you to build new SoundFonts from scratch.

Conversion of sfz to sf2 http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4761&p=15612#p15612:

• load install application from https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/

• run application

• load some sfz bank

• save as sf2

If you have problems while loading samples, open the sfz file in a text editor and change path for samples or remove setting:

"default_path=YOUR PATH"