Difficult to find and not worth the effort IMHO. sf2 implementation is not nearly as good. The Yamaha S-YXG50 synth was my goto in XP, but the. Because of my bias for brass I have noticed this particularly in the brass sounds. I can only assume there has been a lot of "borrowing" going on between authors, or perhaps many of them have used the same sources for some of their sounds. In many cases certain sounds will be identical between very different soundfonts. If you are, say, a piano player I'm sure piano sounds will be your priority, ditto if you are a string or reed player etc. My preferences are heavily informed by my trombone playing. Of course my interpretation of good and yours will surely be different. My personal priority is for good sounding winds, particularly brass. Which soundfonts do you like, which ones do you dislike and reasons for both.īear in mind, this is all subjective and should NOT be considered an objective critique as your mileage WILL vary. I thought it might be worthwhile if we took the time to share our preferences regarding Soundfonts.Īs I'm sure anyone who has spent any time looking for a soundfont that suits them knows, it can be a very long and frustrating exercise, so I thought it could be good if we pooled our discoveries. After looking into 's little issue here: