Atari 2600 GM Bank
by stgiga, little-scale, drunkenjesus, akwf, Gashisoft, Zandro ReveilleUploaded on Jul 11, 2019 (and last updated on Apr 17, 2024)
This is a GM bank based on Atari 2600 that uses period accurate samples to reproduce GM tunes as if made on Atari 2600. It uses distortion 3 and distortion 15 plus the bassy wave to span all 128 keys with a note. The drums are AY/YM noise with some overdrive like on Sunsoft 5B mixer. The GM melodic bank sound effects use Ricoh 2A03 noise from the NES. This makes up most of the bank along with the pitching of Atari's 32 pitches recorded from hardware. I, stgiga balanced and...
BalancedGM 1
by sleafUploaded on Jun 04, 2023 (and last updated on Jun 13, 2023)
A general MIDI soundfont with balanced instruments. I used General User GS for many of the sounds, and also I matched the volume of the other samples used to General User GS.---version 1.03: fixed a few bugs with drum kits
GNU General Public License v3.0
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