Does a microtonal soundfont player exist?

Hey list,

I've got some soundfonts with samples from my favourite video games of days gone by (I'm a big retro gamer by heart). Of course, I don't want to be bored playing them in 12-tet.

Does anybody know of a soundfont player which will do the job? Please share your experiences. :)

Big bonus if there's a plugin (VST, DX, RTAS whatever) rather than a standalone.

Microtonally,

Sean A

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, sevishmusic <sevish@...> wrote:
>
> Hey list,
>
> I've got some soundfonts with samples from my favourite video games of days gone by (I'm a big retro gamer by heart). Of course, I don't want to be bored playing them in 12-tet.
>
> Does anybody know of a soundfont player which will do the job? Please share your experiences. :)
>
> Big bonus if there's a plugin (VST, DX, RTAS whatever) rather than a standalone.
>
> Microtonally,
>
> Sean A

http://www.google.com/search?q=VOPM

If you're clever you can actually export the sounds right from a SEGA
Genesis emulator too.

-Mike

Kontakt!!

It can load soundfonts and do EDOs out of the box.

I used a soundfont for the harmonica for the end of this song.

http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=626&start=0

Please excuse it being in 12 edo and especially excuse my singing.

Also I got a crap load of soundfonts here:
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/<%20http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/>

Chris

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, sevishmusic <sevish@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hey list,
>
> I've got some soundfonts with samples from my favourite video games of days
> gone by (I'm a big retro gamer by heart). Of course, I don't want to be
> bored playing them in 12-tet.
>
> Does anybody know of a soundfont player which will do the job? Please share
> your experiences. :)
>
> Big bonus if there's a plugin (VST, DX, RTAS whatever) rather than a
> standalone.
>
> Microtonally,
>
> Sean A
>
>
>

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=VOPM
>
> If you're clever you can actually export the sounds right from a SEGA
> Genesis emulator too.
>
> -Mike
>

Sorry, I'm still waking up here - now that I think about it, I don't
remember if it can actually do "true" microtuning or not. But it's an
FM synth that you can use to recreate any YM2612 sound (Sega Genesis
and some other stuff), which you could probably microtune via Scala or
something if you wanted.

-Mike

Thanks Mark & Chris for the speedy help.

Mark, that synth is very cool, I'm sure we briefly discussed it on this list before (if not, I read about it on this list). Mega Drive is one of my faves, tho I also want to compose with some SNES sounds from my best games, and the sound chip on that was purely sample based. That's where the soundfonts come in.

Chris, good idea!! I have used Kontakt before, as I used to have access to it at my old school. Familiar with the microtuning too... all very easy with an nkp script by Scala. I'm somewhat confident that my uni has Kontakt installed in one of the labs. So I'll give this a go!

Sean

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> Kontakt!!
>
> It can load soundfonts and do EDOs out of the box.
>
> I used a soundfont for the harmonica for the end of this song.
>
> http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=626&start=0
>
> Please excuse it being in 12 edo and especially excuse my singing.
>
> Also I got a crap load of soundfonts here:
> http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/<%20http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/>
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, sevishmusic <sevish@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I've got some soundfonts with samples from my favourite video games of days
> > gone by (I'm a big retro gamer by heart). Of course, I don't want to be
> > bored playing them in 12-tet.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a soundfont player which will do the job? Please share
> > your experiences. :)
> >
> > Big bonus if there's a plugin (VST, DX, RTAS whatever) rather than a
> > standalone.
> >
> > Microtonally,
> >
> > Sean A
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>