Native Support For DLS soundfont files with Synthesia.
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Hi
I've been using Synthesia for a while now and I found it very useful for graphically mapping out MIDI files to learn how to play new songs.
The only problem is that some of the MIDIs that I try to learn, were orginally meant to be played back with a DLS soundfont and not the default MIDI sound that come standard with MIDI playback.
Is it possible to provide support for DLS soundfonts or not?
Thanks
I've been using Synthesia for a while now and I found it very useful for graphically mapping out MIDI files to learn how to play new songs.
The only problem is that some of the MIDIs that I try to learn, were orginally meant to be played back with a DLS soundfont and not the default MIDI sound that come standard with MIDI playback.
Is it possible to provide support for DLS soundfonts or not?
Thanks
Assuming you have the Windows or Mac version of Synthesia, Synthesia is NOT producing your audio with Sound Fonts or anything else. Synthesia is producing MIDI messages. You can connect whatever you want to turn the MIDI messages into audio. If you have something that will accept MIDI input and produce audio using DLS, then you can connect that to Synthesia. See, for example, the description of how to use BASSMIDI to produce audio from the Synthesia MIDI output.
You 'll need coolsoft virtual midi synth and a soundfont .sf2 "who have the same quality of .dls"
There's soundfont on the website of coolsoft.
http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
On mac you can use directly any dls without third party software. but no sf2...
So yes it's possible to have a really better sound than the microsoft synthetiser device.
There's soundfont on the website of coolsoft.
http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
On mac you can use directly any dls without third party software. but no sf2...
So yes it's possible to have a really better sound than the microsoft synthetiser device.
Even on iPad you can route MIDI from Synthesia to another app. I don't know all the ins and outs of it but I did route MIDI OUT from Synthesia to MIDI IN of the Galileo Hammond B3 simulator to get a Hammond organ sound. If the there is an iPad app that can produce the DLS sounds you want based on MIDI input, you may be able to send it MIDI from another app like Synthesia.
Even more interesting: the "built-in" synth that Synthesia uses on the iPad... is actually a DLS synth! We happen to have licensed a VoiceCrystal set from the folks at Eye & I Productions, but there is very little reason it couldn't be pointed at a different DLS file. While I don't have anything like this on the roadmap, it would be tantalizingly easy to add. No UI to keep things easy, but something along the lines of "Synthesia will use the first DLS file it finds in the iTunes File Sharing folder [or fall back to the built-in DLS file if none are found]".
I’ve even found an app which can import dls and sf2 (I think) files through the open in another app feature on iOS.
Sweet MIDI Player by Roni Music - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sweet-m ... 78002?mt=8
Sweet MIDI Player by Roni Music - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sweet-m ... 78002?mt=8
For what it's worth, since the last post in this topic, we've released Synthesia 10.5 which includes a (BASS and BASSMIDI-based) software synth that uses SF2 SoundFonts. You can now use the SoundFont of your choice in the PC and Android versions of Synthesia by following this guide.
Adding it to Mac and iPad are on the list. It wasn't quite as pressing though, because the quality and (especially!) latency of the built-in synths on Apple devices is already excellent.