Olde sounds……. most of these come from the Digital Sound Factory Proteus 1/2/3 / Orbit / Phatt soundfont bundle which I bought for making FFVII soundalikes and was very useful in that respect.

3x noodlings from last night:

I think I’ve posted some like this before, but to recap — RealFont is a soundfont (sf2) from 2004. It is still available to download for free.

It’s interesting/something that the (circa 2004) webpage there is talking about how truly realistic and advanced this was for the time, and now I am very much using these sounds for their old-fashioned/retro warmth… That said, though–with a bit of work and processing you definitely could make these sounds sound more “realistic” than I am here, quite realistic indeed, maybe. Secret: I do still use the occasional soundfont, using for a wind instrument, mixed in there with expensive sound libraries and whatnot, when I do full orchestral things. But what I’m going for here is some slightly imagined combination of a console that never was / general midi / literally the sounds that were available to me when I started up doing a lot of computer music.

(Also rather quick and not detailed, obviously!)

I’ve been mostly working on PhD writeups and I’m missing piano every day of November…!