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Full Playlist on a Roland

Sounds magical.

Going to see if there's a Roland emulator or soundfont out there.

Something horrificly wrong under windows 11 alienware default configs, there's a horrible ringing during combat music.

Nothing better than a Roland back in the 90s. I later realized how much I was missing out by not having one.

Plugged 'soundfont' into all Arch packages (including the Arch User Repo) and got some results but nothing regarding Roland specifically. (Likely a copyright issue)

 talzahr  arch  ~/build/fluidsynth  pikaur -Ss soundfont

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extra/fluidsynth 2.2.3-1 (pro-audio) [installed]
    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications
community/fluajho 1.6.2-3 (pro-audio)
    A simple sf2 soundfont host/player
community/freepats-general-midi 20210329-1 (soundfonts)
    Free and Open general MIDI sound set
community/liquidsfz 0.2.3-1 (lv2-plugins pro-audio)
    SFZ Sampler
community/polyphone 2.2.0-2 (pro-audio)
    A soundfont editor for quickly designing musical instruments
community/sfizz 1.1.1-1 (lv2-plugins pro-audio vst3-plugins)
    SFZ library and LV2 plugin
community/soundfont-fluid 3.1-3 [installed]
    FluidR3 soundfont
community/timidity++ 2.15.0-5 (pro-audio)
    A MIDI to WAVE converter and player
multilib/lib32-fluidsynth 2.2.3-1
    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications
aur/soundfont-unison 1.00-3 (33, 0.17)
    A lean and clean GM/GS soundbank
aur/soundfont-sgm 2.01-1 (20, 0.18)
    A balanced, good quality GM soundbank
aur/soundfont-titanic 1.2-3 (13, 0.19)
    A public domain, high quality MIDI soundfont by Luke Sena
aur/soundfont-generaluser 1.471-1 (12, 0.19)
    A small and well balanced GM/GS soundbank for many styles of music.
aur/soundfont-zelda3sf2 20040819-1 (8, 0.00)
    Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past soundfont for MIDI playback
aur/soundfont-zeldamcsf2 20050118-1 (8, 0.00)
    Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap soundfont for MIDI playback
aur/soundfont-fatboy 0.790-1 (6, 0.02)
    A free GM/GS SoundFont for classic video game MIDI, emulation, and general usage
aur/soundfont-arachno 1.0-1 (4, 0.17)
    GM/GS soundbank courtesy of Maxime Abbey.
aur/soundfont-sso-sf2 1.0-1 (4, 0.02)
    The Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra by Mattias Westlund. (SF2 format)
aur/fluidsynth-git 1.1.8.r868.e485129-1 (4, 0.00)
    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications (development version)
aur/freepats-ydp-grand-piano 20160804-1 (2, 0.46)
    Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand piano sf2 SoundFont
aur/soundfont-opl3-fm-128m 1.0-1 (3, 0.00)
    A SoundFont designed to simulate the classic MIDI sound of the Sound Blaster 16 (and other YM262 enabled hardware).
aur/soundfont-toh 3.4-1 (3, 0.00)
    Don Allen's Timbres of Heaven soundfont
aur/polyphone-git 2.2.0.r98.5d9179b6-1 (1, 0.95)
    A soundfont editor for quickly designing musical instruments
aur/swami 2.2.1-1 (2, 0.00)
    A SoundFont editor
aur/konfyt-git r181.81b5295-1 (2, 0.00)
    A digital keyboard workstation - search for SFZs/soundfonts, create layered patches on the fly, and more
aur/fluidplug-git r36.889b256-1 (2, 0.00)
    SoundFonts as LV2 plugins via FluidSynth
aur/fluida.lv2 0.7-2 (1, 0.10)
    An LV2 plugin which wraps the fluidsynth SF2 soundfont player
aur/soundfonts-aur-meta 0.0.1-1 (1, 0.00)
    Installs all the soundfont packages in the AUR
aur/fluidsynth-dssi 1.0.0-1 (0, 0.00)
    A FluidSynth soundfont-playing plugin
aur/mingw-w64-fluidsynth 2.2.3-1 (0, 0.00)
    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications (mingw-w64)
aur/mingw-w64-fluidsynth-bin 2.1.2-1 (0, 0.00)
    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications (mingw-w64)
aur/sfarklib-git 20200903-2 (0, 0.00)
    Library for decompressing sfArk soundfonts.
aur/soundfont-jeux 2.4-4 (0, 0.00)
    Jeux organ soundfont
aur/soundfont-personalcopy 5.1f-1 (0, 0.00)
    A large free SoundFont.
aur/soundfont-realfont 2.3-1 (0, 0.00)
    GM soundbank by Michel Villeneuve.
aur/soundfont-sunshine-perc 1-1 (0, 0.00)
    Five drum/percussion soundfonts from Sunshine Studios. Non-commercial use only.

soundfont-opl3-fm-128m package looks interesting: "A SoundFont designed to simulate the classic MIDI sound of the Sound Blaster 16 (and other YM262 enabled hardware)."

soundfonts-aur-meta has all soundfonts on the AUR in one package.

AUR packages will simply download them from a source that's defined in the PKGBUILD script, so they can be utilized by Windows users as well. The AUR meta package above simply lists the other soudnfont packages in the depends array. The soundfont-opl3-fm-128m package calls a source url: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifa...-3_FM_128M.zip (the raw PKGBUILD script)

Also, Fluidsynth has a Windows10 build on their Github repo.

I've started doing some P99 EverQuest videos on Youtube, so I'll test some of the soundfonts out and provide a good solution for Windows and Linux users alike. Also the Linux wiki page needs some serious updating so I will work on that as well. Everyone deserves good music without the strange looping sounds. *EDIT: I may even make a build of the qsynth qt GUI front-end for Windows. Presently it's only released for UNIX(like) environments. Since it interfaces directly with fluidsynth, it should be relatively quick to do (famous last words).