User:Llitechiel/Soundfont tutorial
Figure I can make one since I love this feature to death yet there is no mention of the word "soundfont" anywhere on this Wiki so far
How to set up soundfonts for SRB2
• Firstly, get a soundfont (.sf2). From experience, I've found a lot of my good ones through links in YouTube video descriptions spotlighting the soundfont, though there are numerous free soundfont websites around the Internet you can find with your search engine of choice as well.
• Using them in SRB2 requires a folder to store them in. Within your SRB2 v2.2 folder, make a new folder called "sf2" and then place the .sf2 file inside it. (remember the name of the soundfont file — for this tutorial, "example.sf2" will refer to what soundfont you're trying to use)
• Now launch SRB2. Go to Options → Sound Options... and switch Digital Music off, and leave MIDI Music on.
• To the bottom of the Sound Options page is Advanced Settings..., where the MIDI Settings section of the page is located. To be able to listen to the game's MIDIs with a soundfont, switch the MIDI Player to FluidSynth.
• And then the last step is to refer to your soundfont in-game. In the box hovering under the words FluidSynth Sound Font File, type in the path for the soundfont — sf2/example.sf2
• There you have it! Exiting out to the Options menu will play back the first tune your ears are greeted to — the Title Screen music, _TITLE — in MIDI format with the soundfont you just applied. Listening to it from backing out of the Sound Options menu helps you to test out the soundfont quickly, and you can further do so by toying with the provided music-playing experience within the game itself thanks to the Sound Test accessible from Extras.
• All you have to do to return to listening to digital music again is to go to the Sound Options page and switch it on, playing _CLEAR, the Act Clear music, in Ogg format.
Sound Test with soundfonts
Extra section; take a listen if you want! Below I've recorded several examples of the game's MIDIs in Sound Test with a few applied soundfonts to them. These are all soundfonts that have a complete collection of 128 instruments in addition to a drumkit.
Greenflower 1 — Doom Attack (Amiga) soundfont
Arid Canyon 1 — Doom Attack (Amiga) soundfont
Egg Satellite — Doom Attack (Amiga) soundfont
Deep Sea 2 — Sound Blaster 16 soundfont
Castle Eggman 2 — Sound Blaster 16 soundfont
Haunted Heights — Sound Blaster 16 soundfont
VS Metal Sonic — SNES soundfont