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http://youtu.be/An9hyw-zZYUAbrupt registration aside, I've been looking into this topic of research a looooong while back. The SD90 was out of production for a while, so I'd probably have a hard time obtaining one of those. So I decided to lurk moar on the internets. My journey took me to Nico, where rumors of a THFont circulated. Supposedly, it emulated the SD90 quite well. But my Japanese isn't that great (read: terribad) so I wasn't able to get much after that. Some time later, THFont surfaces on the American side of the net.
"Use it with FL Studio," they said.
Tried it. Nope. Sounded terrible. Either this was a bad trolling attempt by the Nico folks or there was something wrong with the soundfont or the way I/thecommunity was using it. It sounded like an ordinary instrument set, aside from the Romantic TP. Even then, the vibrato and timbre sounded way off. So it couldn't be FL Studio.
A year or so passed, and then something happened. I can't really remember that far back, but I looked through various Japanese imageboards and found an updated version of the THFont, revision 9. I still had the same problem in FL Studio, so I concluded it was definitely a problem with how we were using the font. At this point my Japanese was a bit better (read: still pretty freaking bad) but at least I grasped the idea of subject-object-verb sentences. Then I noticed THFont.rar had a readme! With my trusty friend Denshi Jisho (a really great online kanji dictionary) I transliterated, and then interpreted the readme. With a few lines of code here and there, and then reverting the code changes because the original worked and I was being stupid again, I found out how the imitation SD90 worked.
The above video shows a MIDI copy of A Drunkard's Lemuria, then an original song by yosiyosi called Cosmo Ruin.
I did not compose the songs, I'm simply showing off that the MIDIs work fine with THFont.
EDIT: Reed Romance (UFO Trumpet) doesn't work for some reason. Apparently Japan's been stumped with this one too.
If this was Cynical Me a few years ago, I wouldn't release the soundfont, because well, people...here, video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzUl39hSa8But present-day Optimistic Me realizes the Touhou community is pretty awesome. So I decided to release the soundfont after all.
Just PM me, because I don't just want to leave it here for anyone.
also don't pm the youtube channel, it's this old channel me and a friend used to use ages ago for uploading things that are vaguely video game related