

on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives it is in the vlc-plugin-fluidsynth package, while the fluid-soundfont-gs and fluid-soundfont-gm packages install some sound fonts in /usr/share/sounds/sf2. If the FluidSynth codec is not shown in VLC's preferences, you have to install it as well as sound fonts.Į.g. sf2 file with Browse button and save the preferences with Save button. Choose the display mode called All, then go to Input/Codecs > Audio codecs > FluidSynth. The preferences window has two display modes called Simple and All. You can download them from either of these two places: To playback MIDI files, you need a SoundFont file (with extension. Version 2.01 (usually, 2 but incorrectly called 2.1) of the SoundFont file format was introduced in 1998 with an E-mu sound card product called the Audio Production Studio. Starting from version 2.1.0, support was dropped due to security issues. Files in this and all other 2.x formats (see below) conventionally have the file extension of. Windows binary builds included MIDI support only in versions VLC media player from 1.1.0 through 2.0.8.


Within this list you will find links both to GM SoundFonts and to SoundFonts with.
.sf2 files plus#
A GM SoundFont has presets (instruments) defined for all 128 melodic midi programs, plus at least one percussion set. To fully exploit the capabilities of SynthFont you definitely need a good General Midi SoundFont. VLC media player can play Standard MIDI File (.MID) and RIFF MIDI (.RMI) files since version 0.9.0. Links to SoundFonts and other similar files. MIDI synthesis with the FluidSynth library mid (MIDI) files in VLC Module: fluidsynth
