Creating the 'perfect' Final Fantasy 7 soundfont...

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well the soundfonts are close to psx already? they actually sound better though. the psx has less polyphono i feel
 
@xeriouxi: The problem is that the XG midi driver doesn't have the chorus in "One-Winged Angel" and I'm not exactly willing to play it without.
 
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cant we hack XG to be able to patch it in realtime memory and place the soundbanks we need, and make a custom OWAngel midi?
just a thought
 
cant we hack XG to be able to patch it in realtime memory and place the soundbanks we need, and make a custom OWAngel midi?
just a thought
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You mean the XG midi files, or the XG synth itself?  If its the latter, you'll need to be able to hack the "sgpwav00.tbl" and "sxgwave2.tbl" files (in the case of the S-YXG70 at least, the XG50 seems to have differently-named files), as these are the files that should most likely contain the XG instrument samples/data.
 
Heh, that'd be really cool... my current strategy is...

 - Use the S-YXG50 for the entire game.
 - Use the soundfont when I fight the last boss.

I dunno if it would be possible to add the voices to the S-YXG tbl file, but if anyone would like to try ... :P
 
Heh, that'd be really cool... my current strategy is...

 - Use the S-YXG50 for the entire game.
 - Use the soundfont when I fight the last boss.

I dunno if it would be possible to add the voices to the S-YXG tbl file, but if anyone would like to try ... :P
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All I can tell you about that, is that my version of Awave Studio (version 7.3) can't decode the files....perhaps the newer versions can?
 
I've listened to all the midis and figured out what sounds different from the PlayStation version. I'll get started on it soon.

@others: As far as I know it is not possible to change or add instruments to the table files - whether it's the S-YXG70 or the S-YXG50.
 
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Not that this is at all relevant, but I updated the FF7 For SBLive! page (not the SoundFont, just the web page) recently.

I just figured I'd mention it because there was talk about writing a SoundFont loading FAQ for Win2k/XP a while back, and I'd totally forgotten I had instructions on that page until now . . .

Anyway, you can access it here:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/somedude41/
 
Gah, haven't been here in awhile, just saw this thread and had to respond. I tried to get ahold of rubicant to get the newest version but I just can't seem to find him. I have a little older version of the ff7 soundfont I was working on if you want it message me. Someone other than me can finish it, seeing as how now I have a fulltime job to go along with school so barely any time to do anything other than eat sleep and shit. Gah, I just got home from work and I already have to sleep and start the meaningless cycle all over again. Anyway what's done is pretty far along, just some missing instruments and the need for the midi files to be a little rearranged. I still wish I could get ahold of rubi, he has the version with like 8 more instruments along with around 15 midi files completed. Bah!
 
Wow. I've totally been ignoring the Game Tweaking forum. This topic caught my eye. I've just upgraded to WinXP so I haven't had time - or the enegy - to install FF7 and mess around with patching and soundfonts and using the usless Audigy software in XP.

Yeah, Viena is cool. I've experimented with some soundfonts I use for all midis. Sounds amazing but they're ending up around 140MB though...

I'd love to see a Samuel's For FF7. I had started playing FF8 before I realised about the SF system in FF7 so I was using the XG SoftSynth. The FF8 Timber SF was what got me interested in the whole SF world. I was using the Timber SF in combination with a few all purpose SFs and FF7 was sounding beautiful.

::stares at his copy of FFX-2 PAL, waiting for college to be over:: Must...play.

I'll definately be checkin back here for updates. Oh and I have to listen to the samples from this thread when I get home.
 
Hi!

I just found out that I haven't got a compatible sound card to use the .sf2 files anymore!  :weep:

Is there some way of creating a .dls for it, too? Isn't it possible to somehow put the .psf files into the midi.lgp archive and merge the in_psf.dll system into it?  :-?

xeriouxi.
 
SF2 can be converted to DLS, but it wouldn't make a big difference.
Ficedula's FF7Music lets you replace the midis with MP3 files or the PSF set.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong (be brutal) but doesn't the FFMusic program support WinAmp plugins? Would Highly Experimental work with FFMusic? Never tried FFMusic myself.

-Dan
 
Soundfonts are more user friendly, that's why I settled for them. Another reason is that FF7Music keeps crashing, never really got this to work on my machine.
 
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Hi!

That is one of the reasons for creating the .sf2 file. This is no way intended to knock Ficedula's hard work. His program is great... but it doesn't work on some people's computers and it can be slow at loading in the .psf file to play whilst you are playing the game.  :D

Anymore?  :-?  
So you did previously?   :D
It's possible to convert a sf2 to a dls file, although I'm not able to.  
Not quite sure your second suggestions is also feasible... If it was it'd be very difficult...  -_- "
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Heehee! I did have, yes. I don't anymore since I have my new PC. I'm not allowed to bring the one from my old PC forward as my dad doesn't want me to... probably fearing that I'll break it! Not that I would... but parents are like that... especially since it's a present and I didn't pay for it!  :lol:

As for my second suggestion... you never know, eh?  :wink:

xeriouxi.
 
Finished the soundfont.
But there's a small obstacle to overcome: Whenever I try to replace midis in awe.lgp at a file size of 1,75 MB, LGPTools freezes and creates a 1,31 GB file.  :o
Now, what could this be? Is there a size limit for the lgp files? Can I solve this problem by creating a new lgp?

EDIT: Apparently, it's a bug in the replacement code. It doesn't happen when I create a new archive from all the midi files.
 
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Hi!

Did you say... 1.3Gb!? Yikes! groupz... what did you do!  :lol:

As for a cure... has Ficedula got a more recent version of the LGP program?  :-?

xeriouxi.
 
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