VST Plugins That Have General MIDI 2 Sound Sets?

[Annabelle]

I wonder, are there any plugins like Cakewalk TTS1, that include General MIDI 2 sound sets? I'm specifically trying to find ones that support MIDI controllers like "Portamento Control" (CC84), and Cakewalk TTS1 seems to assign that to a different parameter.

[Amberwolf]

I know there have been some discussions of TTS1 replacements for GM soundsets; I don't have any thread links though.  They may mention the CCs tehy respond to but I didn't really pay attention to that.   

This is a list of threads with TTS1 in the title, if it's helpful; it's proably not all of the discussions about it and it includes irrelevant ones too

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/search/?q=TTS1&quick=1&type=forums_topic&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy&search_in=titles

 

If you know which parameter it assigns it to, you can reassign your CCs or automation to that one.

Or if you can't reassign those, there's at least one MIDI plugin by TenCrazy that lets you reassign anything to anything. 

[David Baay]

I think your best bet would be a late '80s or '90s vintage programmable multitimbral hardware synth that has a GM soundset like the various Roland, E-MU and Korg keyboards and rack modules. The basic soundset is there, but with the programmability to allow changing the sounds in all kinds of ways (including adding portamento) that most GM-only modules were not designed to support. I think GM was so passé by the time virtual instrument plugins came along that there was never a lot of developer interest in going above and beyond emulating a non- or minimally-programmable rompler.