soundfont

English

Etymology

From the trademark SoundFont, from sound +‎ font.

Noun

soundfont (plural soundfonts)

1. (video games, informal) The set of digitized instruments used in the soundtrack of a video game.
   • 2020 August 22, Max Mastrogiacomo, “Gravity Falls Composer Recreates Theme Song As Animal Crossing’s KK Slider”, in ScreenRant‎^[1] (news):

     In the description of the upload, Brad gave credit to Mine Timelapser for providing the soundfont for K.K Slider’s instrumentals. This has all of K.K. Slider’s notes available to download for composers that wish to recreate songs in the style of the guitar-playing dog.

   • 2023 January 27, Rich Stanton, “Legend recreates entire Radiohead album with Mario 64 sounds, even Jonny Greenwood likes it”, in PC Gamer‎^[2] (news):

     It quite incredibly recreates the entire 43-minute album with the Super Mario 64 soundfont (a soundfont is essentially all the files used to create a given soundtrack), and I can only speculate at the amount of time that's gone into this.

   • 2023 May 2, Courtney Fry, “Nintendo 64 covers of massive tunes are flooding YouTube, but who's making them?”, in ABC News‎^[3] (news):

     "About two years ago I made a version of Roygbiv by Boards Of Canada in the Mario 64 soundfont," he said.