Also, I downloaded the archive, and in a lot of the folders I found remains of a web server, probably Apache called .htaccess with option:index. Where did this archive come from? It seems that it has accumulated over thousands of MIDI files and probably other file types that were recorded with other synthesisers, which have been organised by categories, even though I saw many duplicates and misspellings of famous works. I didn't see a Windows CE folder at all.

could you rerecord the midi files? also record the title music from zelda wind waker on this?

At long last, I decoded the samples from wince_gm.
http://grossgang.com/wince_gm_decoded_samples.zip

I saw that.

if I had to guess, it was either microsoft's version of the ADPCM format (ADPCM was used by the Oky dacs found in arcade games) or the gsm6.1 codec, which is native to windows ce.

I found a python script to parse DLS files, and I was able to extract the loop point information, as well as a bunch of other useful info.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mGxwe9 … sp=sharing

The samples were encoded using the WMA ACM codec, specifically WMA V1, though they were in a RIFF container.

Will this be available to be used with Sforzando or some other sound font player?

Yes. When finished, it will be a standard sf2 file you can use with any player, though I don't recommend Sforzando for SoundFonts. I've had bad experiences with it misinterpreting SoundFont parameters, causing things to sound quite bad.

For those who want an update on this project: 39 instruments have been converted. I've decided to go at a somewhat slower pace. One instrument takes 10-20 minutes to convert at full concentration. It is quite draining, tedious work. I recently made some scripts to perform the formulas for me automatically so that will save some time and energy, but still, 17 instruments a day isn't going to happen. I may do 5 instruments one day, and 20 the next, there's no way I can know. I'm not going to pressure myself with a release date. any developer knows that's a bad idea when working on a passion project.

Furthermore I will need to comb through and add sf2 modulators which will allow for an even more accurate conversion. I wasn't doing this at first; most players won't support them, in fact the only library I know which does is Fluidsynth, which is more a thing in the Linux world as far as I know. However some things on Windows do use it, such as the midi plug-in for VLC and Fluidsynth's own Windows binaries, and there are probably others I'm missing. Technically speaking, Fluidsynth's SoundFont implementation is the most complete of anything out there, so I want to honor that in my conversion. I estimate this will add a day or two to the conversion time.

So in conclusion, it will be released soon. But a week is pushing it. If you hear nothing by the end of the month though, assume something may have gone wrong

Hi,
For the past week, I have been working on my own soundfont of wince_gm non stop. I am happy to say that Beta 1 of this font is out.
http://grossgang.com/utilities/wince_gm.sf2
A fiew things to note:
I didn't Integrate LFOs or volume attenuation, so It won't sound exactly like the original. The decoded samples don't have any Annoying artifacts for the most part, so this soundfont actually sounds much better than the original.
Some of the loop points were causing notes to become out of tune so the problematic points had to be shortened by 1 sample. If something sounds out of tune, please let me know so I can fix any more problematic loop points.

I couldn't figure out how the pitch modulation for some of the drums worked, so I made some compromises. The panning for the long whistle is a simple fix.