...how did someone make an out-of-tune /soundfont/

is this an art piece

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(the file says it's "GXSCC-FM GM 0.33" by Zandro Reveille, and claims to be "Based on GASHISOFT GXSCC Beta 236"; the MIDI is of the first movement of Beethoven's 6th Symphony and comes from the University of Arizona)

(...maybe the soundfont is unfinished? maybe the version I downloaded is broken? I don't understand)

@packbat we're not *super* familiar with the format but i'm pretty sure a soundfont includes information about what note the base sample(s) are and the other frequencies are calculated from that, and if that information is wrong everything will be out of tune
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@Felthry *nods*

it could be a compatibility issue with VLC's version of FluidSynth, I suppose

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@packbat the MIDI itself could also be broken somehow, too
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@Felthry That can definitely happen, but we've played this MIDI and the others we tried on it before with Fluid R3, GeneralUser GS, Yingchun Soul 2MGM, and others without problems.

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