XCALIBAR'S PROFILE

10 years later, and I'm still finding new RPGMaker 2000 and 2003 games that use MIDI exclusively. But, MIDIs can't compete with games that use mp3s... right?

Well, on my old computer I had a Sound Blaster card that allowed me to change the instruments for MIDI by loading Soundfont files. Thus, I could change the sound of the game with a touch of a button; greatly enhancing the experience musically...

But, with my new PC I don't have any special soundcard...

THAT's when I stumbled upon this :
CoolSoft's VirtualMIDISynth. Works with XP, Vista, Win7 and Win8. It was quick and painless at least for me to install, and load up soundfonts JUST like my old Soundcard did!

I wanted to at least share a few examples in a creative way to make it worth your while to read this... So check out this youtube video I made with a few comparison MIDI songs.


I don't know if this is the right place to put this topic, or if there is even a topic already discussing this! I can't find a search tool?! (I tried googling though) Also, thought about uploading this as media to the website, but I think I have to have a game for that!

Anyway, discuss! Share your favorite soundfont combinations for games!

Links to soundfonts, the VirtualMIDISynth program are in the youtube video description.... :

CoolSoft released a program called VirtualMIDISynth, that allows any new Windows computer (Yes, even 8) to use soundfonts instead of the default Microsoft Synth. Before now, you'd need a soundcard like an Audigy 2 to switch soundfonts... Now anyone can do it!

RPGmaker just doesn't feel the same to me without it!
I made this video because I hadn't seen it mentioned in the RPGmaker community...

You can get the program here :
http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/vir...

As for the soundfonts :
A bunch are linked on that page.

Here are some more :
http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-soundfon...
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtop...

The Musical Box 2.1 soundfont is currently down, replaced by the newer version called Evanessence... It doesn't always sound as good for RPGmaker midis, but if you want it, see if the creator will give permission to reupload it for our purposes. Or beg me to ask @_@ ...

Some soundfonts may be compressed in Sfark or Sfpack formats...
A quick google should find those small programs.

I have only had ONE issue that I will mention while using this : While I'm 99% sure it is unrelated, when using RPGmaker in fullscreen, sometimes all the instruments are piano. It works fine windowed, so I am able to work around it. I do not believe it is this program that causes this issue, because it didn't go away when I uninstalled. I just got this Windows 7 system recently, so I haven't been able to pinpoint the issue.