I''m trying to convert some MIDI files I have into MOD format, but I''ve been having trouble finding a good soundfont bank that is suitable for hard rock/heavy metal music. Does anyone know of such a soundfont that is free and sounds realistic? Also, is there a program that can convert MIDI to MOD using these files?

Hi!
I don''t know that much about soudfonts, but for my little experience, it seems you''ll never find the perfect (free) soundfont. What I do sometimes is render the midi files track by track with diferent soundfonts each time (I choose the best for each track) and then I mix all the tracks.

Here are some links you should try if you haven''t:
http://www.personalcopy.net/home.htm <- they have Kamac Dist. guitar, the best guitar SF Ì''ve try.
http://www.powermage.com/fluid/ <-- Great SF
http://www.hammersound.net/ <-- Tons of SF''s

For converting midi to mod, I don''t know if Awave (http://www.fmjsoft.com/)can do that, but if it doesn''t I doubt that any other program can.

Hope it helps!
see ya

Tried and true, the best free metal distortion guitars are made by trackers and are not available in sf2 format, only as xi or iti tracker instruments.

http://grj.hispeed.com
http://www.saunalahti.fi/leh15/Raz-guitpack.zip
http://www.geocities.com/ephel.duath/samples.zip (haven''t tested these so I don''t know how is it with the quality)
There are more but I can''t find the url''s right now.

These can''t be used the same way as the gm distguitar = same samples for palm muted and open notes. But you can get much more realistic sound when this is separated.