Substitute for the default sound font?
Here's a link to a free sound font, Merlin-Vienna, with many instruments that also contains a couple of nice piano fonts. I believe it's could be a good substitute for the default sound font, although it is rather large.
http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/BigMerlin.htm
And here are some examples of the font:
http://ormusic.home.comcast.net/SpaceShuffleMerlin.mp3
http://ormusic.home.comcast.net/CraveMerlin.mp3
http://ormusic.home.comcast.net/Angry_birds.mp3
Comments
Some users already complained that the MuseScore installer is too big. The current soundfont is not that bad for its 6MB and it's free to use and distribute. Merlin Vienna is >100MB uncompressed. It would multiply by 3 the size of MuseScore install package. Moreover, I can't find a licence attached to Merlin and it's hard to know if it's free to use...
MuseScore 2.0 will support several soundfont at once. It would be great if we could host several good soundfonts on a website and be able to download them directly from MuseScore, or even get updates if a soundfont is improved. However there is currently more than 4000 people downloadinf MuseScore every day. If each of them is downloading a couple of 100Mb soundfont every day, we are talking about 1TB of bandwith every day... that's a couple of thousands $ per month of bandwith costs...
I couldn't get merlin soundfont to unpack. I downloaded the unpacking package but could not work out how to install that.
In reply to I couldn't get merlin by macrobbair
You'd need sfark to unpack, see http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm
In reply to I couldn't get merlin by macrobbair
If your OS is Windows all you should need to do is extract from the ZIP and then double click the installer.
If not then there Mac and Linux versions along with another Windows version to be had here...
http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-soundfonts.php#compressors
In reply to If your OS is Windows all you by ChurchOrganist
I have tried sfark several times without success, try again....
In reply to I have tried sfark several by macrobbair
If you are still unsuccessful - post here.
I will arrange a link to an uncompressed version.
Having tried some of the sounds though - I'm not sure it's worth the effort :)
In reply to If you are still unsuccessful by ChurchOrganist
it seems to be a general problem, once I have downloaded the tar.gz I cannot get the ap in it to work