MyMIDI Player users can now upgrade their instruments to get greatly improved instrument sounds.
After much planning with Alberto, owner of the company GoldMidiSf2, we are pleased to offer this professional quality soundfont as an instrument upgrade for MyMIDI Player.
MyMIDI Player remains free to everyone, but there is no free way to better instrument sounds. If there was I would offer it to you.
I am very excited to share this opportunity to upgrade the instrument quality for users of MyMIDI Player. The bottom line is this – if you want to improve your music from MyMIDI Player, you now can. The soundfont below will dramatically improve the quality of your instrument sounds when playing MIDI files.
The price in the table below is in Euros, as any purchases made here go direct to GoldMidiSf2 in Italy, not MyMIDI Worship Resources. The MegaPro Studio soundfont will provide an upgrade to all your instrument sounds.
The purchase link is near the bottom of this page.
If you would like to upgrade for better sound, but it seems too complicated, please get in touch via the “Contact Us” page, and I’ll help you through the process step by step. (Wayne)
Sound Font | Description | Price |
Gold Mega Pro Studio General MIDI | This sound font covers all instruments, and is the best General MIDI soundfont produced by GoldMidiSf2 at this time. It is noticeably better than the option above, and is exactly the same as the Mega Pro Studio GM/GS sound font available on Alberto’s website. This is offered here for those who want the best. The pianos, drums, strings, brass – they are all very nice. | €29.90*Approx. US$32.72 |
* Approximate USD prices based on currency conversion 13 October 2024. |
In Summary …
- Mega Pro Studio General MIDI sound font for €29.90 provides high quality instruments for a really good price. V5 of MyMIDI Player will introduce other quality improvement options, but MegaPro Studio will still be an important recommended soundfont.
- We used to recommend “Gold Guitars” and “Gold Organs”, but Alberto has given them to us to include for free in MyMIDI Player v5, so buying them is no longer needed.
Uncompressing your downloaded soundfonts
When you download your purchased soundfonts, they have a “rar” extension. They are compressed and need to be uncompressed. The most common apps that can uncompress rar files are 7-Zip and Winzip. 7-Zip is completely free and I recommend it.
[this paragraph only if you have neither 7-Zip nor Winzip on your computer]
Click here for the 7-Zip page, and click the top option to download the 64 bit version. It is slightly easier to use than the 32 bit version. At the time of writing, the download file is called 7z2107-x64.exe. Find it after you’ve downloaded, probably in your downloads folder, and double-click on it to start the installation. Do what is needed to complete the installation – it is very simple. It is very handy to have 7-Zip on your computer.
When you have downloaded your new soundfonts (as RAR files), find them and right-click, hover over 7-Zip and click “Open Archive”. Then click on the .sf2 file, and click “Extract” (near the top). It will ask you where to put the extracted file – it should go in your documents/MyMIDIPlayer folder. The sf2 (soundfont) file will now be in the correct place, ready to use.