What MIDI soundfonts do you use for DOOM?

[wuunds]

I recently started using ChoriumRevA as my MIDI soundfont in GZDoom and I love it a lot. It makes a lot of music just sound way better in my opinion. I'm looking to try out other ones so I'm wondering if anyone uses any soundfonts themselves and have recommendations.

[Hisymak]

I'm an oldschool person who lived his whole childhood with DOS games and an Adlib/Sound Blaster-compatible sound card.

I use this for all my time playing Doom or Heretic.

That's my answer.

Edited November 16, 2022 by Hisymak

[Trar]

I just use an SC-55 soundfont. I'll have to try this enhanced GENMIDI though.

[Doomkid]

You know, I’ve honestly switched between too many to count over the years. I love the SC-55 family stuff, but there’s some other excellent SF2s out there.

 

Below are some comparisons I made w/ downloads, I think this is presently one of the largest collections of full GM soundfonts on the net right now!

 

 

And here’s the SC-55 variety pack…!

 

Download: https://archive.org/details/sc-55-roland-25-gm-soundfonts

 

 

[knifeworld]

YES!



Real answer: I usually rotate around a few SC-55 style variants, or I sometimes use GM DLS remastered v2 or RLNDGM.
Lately I've been using either ColomboGMGS2 or a recent one called SC-55 zzdenis 0.5.

Edited November 17, 2022 by knifeworld
mentioned other sf2 i recently tried

[Trar]

This reminds me, the SC-55 soundfont I use is the Patch93 one. I remember posting about finding it after having volume issues with my previous soundfont.

[Herr Dethnout]

Soundfont?

[megakitsu]

Hello,

 

RLNDGM.SF2, seems to work very well for me, I do need to try some of these others mentioned however.

[HorseJockey]

I really like Weeds and Arachno soundfont and the SC-55 by @Trevor0402 

I usually bounce around and use whichever one I'm in the mood for though. I don't have a "Main" per-se.

[Garlichead]

Alternate between this one and Arachno. ZZ_denis sounds lovely on headphones.

[megakitsu]

2 minutes ago, Garlichead said:

Alternate between this one and Arachno. ZZ_denis sounds lovely on headphones.

 

Just trying zz_denis myself, really impressed I think I'll be using this for a while!

[Trar]

20 hours ago, Trar said:

This reminds me, the SC-55 soundfont I use is the Patch93 one. I remember posting about finding it after having volume issues with my previous soundfont.

Ugh, I misremembered. I actually downloaded Trevor0402's SC-55 soundfont instead of Patch93.

[RastaManGames]

I have nice Touhou.SF2, but not sure how can I use it in GZDoom 4.9.0...

[TheSlipgateStudios]

I usually use either standard or OPL when I want that good ol' DOS feel.

[Doomkid]

On 11/18/2022 at 11:24 PM, RastaManGames said:

I have nice Touhou.SF2, but not sure how can I use it in GZDoom 4.9.0...

There should be a soundfonts folder in your GZDoom folder, toss it in there and you should be able to select it from within GZDoom!

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

If what doomkid said still doesn't work, open your gzdoom.ini with any text editor, look for the soundfont directories, and you can simply write Path=path/to/the/soundfont/folder

 

On topic: This take of the SC-55 soundfont, sounds good enough for me

[Dweller Dark]

I use 8MbGM_Enhanced18 personally, but it does seem a little loud sometimes in sourceports like Woof or Nugget. Sounds more instrumental, though. 

 

I would like to find something better than it, though.

[RastaManGames]

On 11/20/2022 at 3:57 AM, Doomkid said:

There should be a soundfonts folder in your GZDoom folder, toss it in there and you should be able to select it from within GZDoom!

Also, adding a new path under this construction works too:

 

[SoundfontSearch.Directories]
Path=$PROGDIR/SoundFonts

 

Nice to find out, 'cause that soundfont has weight of ~250+ Mb and it can be sad to duplicate it to GZDoom's soundfonts folder...

 

P.S.: Actually, "SGM_V2-01.SF2" sounds not bad at all. I mean, there is even some hidden tech sounds in "D_E1M5" and overall quality reminds me of "HD Music Packs" for JDoom and Doomsday...

P.P.S: "TimbresOfHeavenGM_GS_XG_SFX_34_Final.SF2" sounds good too, but those moments of "D_E1M5" is very short and kinda loud, I guess...

Edited November 21, 2022 by RastaManGames

[DynamiteKaitorn]

Whatever "General Midi" is. Guessing it's the standard Windows built-In midi soundfont?

[Biz!]

General Midi works, but the guitar is terrible.

[YoshiTheMage]

On 11/16/2022 at 6:15 AM, arsenalchan said:

I recently started using ChoriumRevA as my MIDI soundfont in GZDoom and I love it a lot. It makes a lot of music just sound way better in my opinion. I'm looking to try out other ones so I'm wondering if anyone uses any soundfonts themselves and have recommendations.

I decided to try ChoriumRevA myself since I'd never heard of it and wanted to put that high praise to the test. I've played a handful of WADs with it including JPCP and AUGER;ZENITH and It delivers, I think this my new preferred soundfont so thank you! As for others I've used I went looking for a Sega Genesis soundfont because I like the music that console can put out and found "Ultimate Genesis Soundfont". Results with it have been very mixed so I don't run it all the time but when it works it really works.