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Heavy editing of each sound is possible. In these respects, a Soundfont bank is flexible, unlike a Hardware module, whose sounds must generally stay as they came from the factory.




I disagree with that assumption. Many new hardware modules allow changing and adding samples. The Juno-G is one of the most expandable synths I have owned.

I still have soundfonts in systems here. I have a couple I actually still like to this day. It can get involved, especially creating your own. I used to really enjoy doing that and made a few fonts, but these days time is too pressing. It was a very cool and powerful format, just a little involved.

I still have a custom GM font on one system here that is still holding an SBLive card in a second or third slot... man I'm going to miss PCI slots, I had quite a bit of time and money into those... I should have learned from the old ISA slots.
I recently found an odd system with an ISA slot that runs XP. I have yet to dig out the old Roland Audio Production card to see if it works in there. That was a fun card and software. I think the samples on it were better versions of the VSC samples Roland used for so many products. Wonder if the drivers are still available.. I doubt the original floppies are still good (but I have 'em, all 6 of them!)

I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!