Arachno SoundFont is a General MIDI-compliant bank of 128 instruments/presets and 9 GM/GS drum kits, aimed at enhancing the realism of your MIDI files and arrangements.
It’s meant to be used with a SoundFont 2.x-compatible MIDI synthesizer, either hardware (e.g. Sound Blaster Live!/Audigy/X-Fi) or software (like SynthFont, BASSMIDI Driver or CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth).
This SoundFont project was first started somewhere in mid-2003, as a modified version of the “Magic SoundFont”, by Dennis Deutschmann, for the author’s own MIDI listening purposes, such as video game music listening or audio production.
Designed to enhance MIDI music from your old favorite video games
Arachno SoundFont has been created with video game music in mind, mainly focusing at enhancing MIDI music from classic PC video games from the 80’s and 90’s.
Here are some of the numerous games it has been tested with:
- id Software/Raven Software (Robert C. Prince, Lee Jackson, Kevin Schilder…):
- Wolfenstein 3D.
- Spear of Destiny.
- DOOM.
- DOOM II: Hell on Earth.
- Heretic.
- HeXen…
- Apogee/3D Realms (Robert C. Prince, Lee Jackson…):
- Duke Nukem 3D.
- Rise of The Triad.
- Wacky Wheels.
- Hocus Pocus…
- LucasArts (Michael Z. Land, Peter McConnell, Clint Bajakian, Steven O’Brien, Robin Goldstein, Anthony White…):
- The Secret of Monkey Island.
- Day of the Tentacle.
- LOOM.
- Indiana Jones…
- Westwood Studios (Frank Klepacki):
- The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One.
- The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Two: The Hand of Fate.
- Lands of Lore.
- Command and Conquer…
- Sierra:
- Leisure Suit Larry.
- King’s Quest.
- Space Quest.
- Quest for Glory.
- Police Quest…
- Interplay:
- Psygnosis (Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, Malc Jennings, Tony Williams…):
- Lemmings.
- Lemmings 2: The Tribes.
- Discworld.
- Microids/Monolith:
- Origin:
- Ultima series.
- Wing Commander series.
- Microsoft (Stephen Rippy, David Rippy, Kevin McMullan):
Audio samples and recordings
Listen to some audio tracks recorded with Arachno SoundFont, either official (by the SoundFont author himself) or by third-party users:
{See video at top of page}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDa3D3rbqU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpA9dBGhDw
Official Arachno SoundFont recordings:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9BhB6Jfbp248d1AC4Vv6jAaEojYD_QV
http://arachnosoft.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/arachnosoft
Recordings made with Arachno SoundFont by third-party users and musicians:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9BhB6Jfbp0SRMsxa9cyrbPKfWfB-IRl
https://soundcloud.com/arachnosoft/sets/made-with-arachno-soundfont
Official product information pages
http://www.arachnosoft.com