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Crisis GM is a custom SoundFont 2.0 bank designed to replace the default Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. While the name implies "General MIDI," this is not a sterile, polite library. As the name suggests, Crisis GM is built for tension, grit, and cinematic weight.

: One of the largest GM soundfonts available, with the 3.01 version weighing in at roughly crisis GM soundfont -sf2-

In the world of digital music production, soundfonts occupy a strange, nostalgic purgatory. They are often associated with the tinny, 8MB banks of a 1998 Sound Blaster card. But every so often, a custom soundfont emerges that transcends its limitations. is that exception. Crisis GM is a custom SoundFont 2

To use it today, you typically need a modern MIDI synthesizer or wrapper: : One of the largest GM soundfonts available, with the 3

Over the years, the community has kept the project alive through various iterations: Crisis GM 3.01: The classic version most veterans remember. Crisis GM 3.51:

: A tiny (34 MB) font that reviewers claim makes almost every MIDI sound good and "balanced".

Once upon a time in the early 2000s, a digital musician named Chris Maricourt