One of the nice (tangential) things about MuseScore is that they provide and curate a really good MIT-licensed GM soundfont called Fluid[1]. (A soundfont is a c

One of the nice (tangential) things about MuseScore is that they provide and curate a really good MIT-licensed GM soundfont called Fluid[1]. (A soundfont is a collection of samples that usually gets mapped to MIDI instruments. Most built-in soundfonts are on the order of a few megabytes; this one comes in at a whopping 140MB!) The latest version is offered as an SF3 file, a modified version of the SF2 format where samples can be stored as OGG instead of WAV. The tool used to convert SF2 to SF3 can be found on Github[2] and is maintained by one of the lead MuseScore developers. (I used the SF2 version of this soundfont in my new iPad music app[3], <shill> a kind of doodle-y, multi-instrument sequencer where you draw your notes directly on a pannable and zoomable canvas rather than plotting them out one-by-one like in most DAWs. You can draw notes at any point in time and bend them to any pitch, allowing you to easily play around with guitar solos and complex rhythms. It's sort of my modern take on sheet music. But I digress... </shill> Since the Fluid SF2 is so big compared to the SF3, I'm going to try to modify sftools to re-convert SF3 back to SF2 in order to keep my bundle size down.) [1]: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfonts https://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfonts [2]: https://github.com/wschweer/sftools https://github.com/wschweer/sftools [3]: http://composerssketchpad.com http://composerssketchpad.com