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LeapFrog's Leap-font Samples

Here is a collection of samples for LeapFrog's Leap-font. You can use them to make the LeapFrog Systems Soundfont (Leap-font Wavetable Synthesis) (click here to read more about the Leap-font below on the MORE INFO section). They are ripped from the BIOS ROMs dumps. Also included are the LeapFrog BIOS dumps (2 LeapPad, 2 My First LeapPad, 1 Little Touch LeapPad, 6 Leapster). All of the instrument samples and sound effects are in 8000Hz WAV format.

Both of these are in ZIP files, so you have to open the ZIP file first and then out pop the 2 ZIP files, so you can open both of them to use them for making the LeapFrog Systems Soundfont.

If you are using the ROM dump WAV files, here's how to make the LeapFrog Leap-font (NOT the one by iusmaker777):

Resources required: Polyphone (Download polyphone: https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/) (THE BEST RECOMMENDATION to use with the LeapFrog ROM dump wav files or samples) or Audacity (Download Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/) (if you're acquiring the soundfont from an obscure console, with the Audacity raw data feature)

(OPTIONAL, for HD sounds from the BIN versions of the LeapFrog ROM Dumps: https://archive.org/details/leap-frog-rom-dumps-collection)

1 - First, use the ROM dumps (above) and extract the samples properly.

2- Import the ROMs and BIOS dumps of the games and toys (ABOVE) on Audacity or Polyphone in order to make the soundfont. For Polyphone (recommended by VEGA03 on GitHub), just be sure to upsample it to 44,100 HZ for the highest sound quality possible, and try your best with these LeapFrog BIOS Dumps to recreate loop points and envelopes as decently as you can. (If upsampling the samples is redundant process, you can leave the samples just the way they are.)

3 - All instrument namings required. Just remember, eliminate the static sounds and do not include them. For every sample with loop points, you can move either the loop's start or end by 1 sample, thus realigning it.

4 - Only include Instrument sounds in the correct banking places and Correct instrument names and 3 SFX sets. Please also match the correct registers with what you hear below. IMPORTANT: All of the instruments in the LeapFrog soundfont/Leap-font MUST sound in the same range, just like how usual General MIDI devices or soundfonts usually sound, and they MUST NOT sound at the different wrong octaves!!!

5 - When finished making the soundfont, you can upload it to Internet Archive, Google Drive or Musical Artifacts. You can also upload a "Soundfont test" on Soundcloud if you want to demonstrate your LeapFrog Systems Soundfont (Leap-font) there.

NEED SOME HELP: If you don't know what it sounds like, here are 18 different examples of what it really sounds like as a reference:

1 - The Late Brad Fuller's Leap-font demonstration (original source credit: Brad Fuller on SoundCloud, no copyright infringement!) - https://www.soundcloud.com/bradfuller/kid-stuff-demo

2 - LeapFrog Globe Regional Music, LeapFrog Globe or Quantum Pad Regional Anthems or Music from Quantum Pad World Geography (original source credit: Brett Smith's Geographic Channel on YouTube) - https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC4tLB7zWICGaFH34Gh-AklA/playlists

3 - LeapFrog LeapPad Human Body Soundtrack (original source credit: Brett Smith's Geographic Channel on YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3B_Nw7ENw4

4 - Leapster Soundtrack Music Playlist (original source credit: iDog Hacker on YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeptsxNzwdfGV0_UPyzvdXOkFl0QwZyal

5 - Leapstart Learning Gym Music Part 1 and 2 (original source credits: Savannah Chesney on YouTube) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ33E7J5tS0 and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URPaoWUUJH0

6 - LeapFrog Dreamscapes Soother (original source credit: The Toy Collector of Seville On YouTube) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jZhVAwO7ndQ

7 - Traditional Tunes Instrumentals on The Learning Screen Karaoke (original source credit: The Electronic Toy Archive on YouTube) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JqUid6eWQXo

8 - LeapFrog's My First LeapPad Thomas and the School Trip Soundtrack (original source credit: Brandon Polley on YouTube) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C78yrnaQfPg

9 - LeapFrog's LeapPad Thomas the Really Useful Engine (original source credit: Brandon Polley on YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KMdlonl2c

10 - LeapFrog's LeapPad Bob and Lofty Save the Day (original source credit: Brandon Polley on YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmLBRYvzkM

11 - Kristin Miltner's Leap-font demonstration (original source credit: Kristin Miltner on SoundCloud, no copyright infringement!) - https://soundcloud.com/kristin-miltner/sets/chiptunes-gold-mine-old

12 - Leapster Games -- All of these use the Leap-font in their music (original source credit: RescueHero's Nostalgia Zone on YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGD5GgA4aBl2ONMur6Yi4-06-PbXyuAMt

13 - LeapFrog Fridge DJ (includes some singing) (original source credit: The Toy Collector of Seville on YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-M5ovCGHY

14- 3 Tunes from Our Town Band in the LeapPad book, Leap Into Learning (original source credits: Groovy_Superstar (me of course) on Soundcloud): The Stars and Stripes Forever; America the Beautiful; Take Me Out to the Ball Game - https://soundcloud.com/groovystephaniekim/leappad-leap-into-learning-stars-stripes-forever-our-town-band, https://soundcloud.com/groovystephaniekim/leappad-leap-into-learning-america-the-beautiful-our-town-band and https://soundcloud.com/groovystephaniekim/leappad-leap-into-learning-take-me-out-to-the-ball-game-our-town-band

15 - A short musical example from the Little Touch LeapPad's Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (original source credit: #Team Jacob Paradis on YouTube) (Skip to 0:51-1:00 to hear it; also, please ignore the page-turning and talking) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGFEVv_-IM

16 - Music for two sampler pages from the book "A Sampler from the Quantum Pad Library" (original source credit: Brett Smith's Geography Channel) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwzWnZ0A-4

17 - Two Different Tunes for Our Solar System pages from the book "A Sampler/Collection from the Quantum Pad Library) (original source credit: Brett Smith's Geographic Channel) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijs7NfVxqO4

18 - Leap's Learning Band songs (again, includes some singing for 9 of 25 songs!) (original source credit: The Electronic Toy Archive on YouTube) (skip to 2:37 to hear the songs) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPDTSGdFoIE

More info if you want to know what's behind it, please read the LeapFrog Leap-font wiki page below in the MORE INFO section. (I recently updated it so to include the history, the instrument list, instrument packs and GM programs and banks for instruments.)

FYI: The Leap-font is a lot more advanced, working a lot like MIDI (musical instrument digital interface). The instrument system in the Leap-font has so much more that he or she can do with it. The Leap-font has 74 instruments and supports 6 channels, which means he or she can have up to 6 instruments or multiple tracks with the same instrument playing at once. The Leap-font was used on the higher end toys (e.g. LeapPad Learning System (1999), My First LeapPad, Turbo Twist, the Leapster up until the Leapster 2) and even some cheaper ones (e.g. Learning Screen Karaoke, See and Learn Driver, Leap's Learning Band, School Time Leaptop (songs) and Fridge DJ). Also, each instrument's samples are multi-sampled, or sampled with each range having a specific sample across its specific notes.

THE STORY: When I was experimenting with MIDI files with an old soundfont made by iusmaker777 (on Musical Artifacts) I saw the big problem: I noticed the names of the samples are even wrong, and also some audio problems (ie. Instruments played long sound like the audio stops for around 0.5 seconds then plays again, and it's supposed to have multi-sampled sounds for each instruments), and sounds nothing like the examples above! So this is why I'm posting everything, the ZIP files including samples and ROM dumps, directions for making the soundfont and listening examples of the LeapFrog soundfont.

If anyone can give me ideas or make this LeapFrog Soundfont "perfectly" for me, please let me know in the comments below! It would be appreciated a lot. Thanks! :)

For now, enjoy these ROM dumps and samples for making the LeapFrog Systems Soundfont "Leap-font".