Help! I can't use soundfonts!

[spikewheel1]

Whenever I try to use a soundfont, only certain sounds work, especially with Mega Man X. It just repeats itself over and over when I click on it, and it doesn't stop. Can someone help?

[Meldan]

Where did you get the sf of?

[spikewheel1]

I don't remember... it's the Mega Man X one

[Smario32]

If the sound isn't stopping on Megaman X, I have the same problem, and I use AMS. It might just be a problem with the soundfont.

[adirmaymon]

I'm helping you.
1. Download soundfont to Mario Paint Composer.
2. Change name to soundset3 and now you use soundfont,

[xxzanderxx]

How do you use sound fonts?

[El Regulus]

May 15, 2013 21:43:43 GMT -6 xxzanderxx said:

How do you use sound fonts?

Read the post above yours.

Make sure you have the extension .sf2 when you rename your soundfont set. (soundset3.sf2) And obviously delete the old soundfont first (or move to another folder). When you open up the Mario Paint Composer program, it should link up with the special soundfont.

[shinyjiggly]

Also, about the weird problems on some soundfonts, some of them might not be optimized to be used with MPC/AMS. A thing to remember is that they hold the note forever until silenced somehow. The reason most properly optimized soundfonts have notes that eventually end is that they aren't set for infinite sustain or something like that, which is a common thing to see with most soundfonts based off of other SNES games and such. To fix it, you can try messing around with the soundfont in a program like viena. It's a somewhat complicated process of tweaking a soundfont for certain needs, but it should definitely be within the realm of possability.

*looks up and sees the OP posted a couple years ago an likely has already abandoned the forum*
*still posts the answer anyways for future reference*