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I want the highest quality midi sounds



This is a dangerous statement. The highest quality is something like a Yamaha Tyros 4 or a Korg Pa3x keyboard. Both are right around $4,000. Right below them are some of the high end VST synth/samplers like Kontakt, Halion or Native Instruments Komplete 8 Ultimate that's on sale right now for only $999. These kinds of things qualify for "highest quality". A Soundblaster card, the VSC or Forte DXi are way, way down at the bottom of the list. Even the Ketron SD2 or my Sonic Cell for around $400, are somewhere in the middle.

You have to spend some real money for high quality midi sounds. If you're talking highest quality for around a hundred bucks then yeah, a Soundblaster with some freebie soundfonts you can download, the VSC or the Forte are about it unless you can find a used Roland JV series hardware sound module on Ebay for $100 or so.

Bob



Dangerous? Oh my god, let's hope nothing blows up....quick quick, run for cover

Kontakt is not GM compatible, since you would have to load a sound at a time for every track of the midi file, which is too complicated because some sounds might not have the full registers as recorded in the midi file, etc...I have already tried it since I have Kontakt as well as some Eastwest libraries, which are def the best ones.

I also have a Tyros 2 of which, yeah it has definitely the best GM sounds I have heard anywhere and a fantastic instrument to boot, the classical guitars sound as good or better than my Eastwest library.

What does JV series hardware have to do with all that? I had a Roland XP80 many years ago (same JV engine), it's now too outdated and the GM sounds on it were like, 1 mb in all, since the whole ROM was 8 mb

I am talking about GM compatible stuff....not sounds that you have to load one at a time. I'll try Biab with my Tyros 2 , that might do the trick