FatBoy SoundFont
Love it!<p>I had to go back and listen to one of my favorite midi tracks - the Ultima online Buccaneer's Den theme.<p>Using this sound font there are some really major improvements. Not that the original instrumentation that shipped with machines of the day didn't have its charm.<p>I love the fact that we used to literally ship midi files around for game music - it's such a technically elegant approach and because it could be thought of as just 'musical markup' it was even trivial to add compositions to websites - when we had severe bandwidth limitations.<p>While there's no question that the addition of a mastering step and the ability to ship perfectly 'rasterized' music (to mix metaphors) has meant we have a perfect rendition of the composer's intent and is vital for a lot of musical expression, there was always something fun about the idea that music directors were practically composing symphonies to be played by individual orchestras on each user's machine.