If you want to be able to use SoundFonts or DLS sound banks with your keyboard or as an output device for a MIDI application, DLS-MIDI-Synth is defintely the way to go. I have used it happily for a number of months. Yes, there are some enhancements that I would like to see. However, in its current state, the product fulfills an important void in the world of MIDI applications. I’m a grateful customer!

This app works fine, but it doesn’t respect the GM drums-on-channel-10 standard, so I have to manually set the drum patch virtually every time I open it. Also, the patch selector UI is a hot mess.

This does what I needed. It reminds me quite a lot of FluidSynth. It plays soundfonts. I like the little knobs too.

I had the impression this product was some kind of mixer, but it’s not.First of all, it supports only one MIDI input, so you can’t mix muitiple input streams (e.g. multiple instruments).(But the author has another, more expensive app, that will allegedly “fix” that limitation.)Secondly, the 16 sliders are fixed to one MIDI channel each, so you can't use it to “layer” multiple sounds from a single MIDI input channel.Finally, for your single channel, single voice, all you get is a volume slider and “pan” and “reverb” knobs.Since volume and balance are built in to OSX, all you really get for your money is the “reverb”.