How to import new instruments into FE8?

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So about sf2/dls files I’m not sure myself, since I’m pretty new in romhacking too.

But the .wav files yeah, since the instruments are very simple ‘single notes’ it would be significantly lighter on the space than trying to import a .wav music directly.
And when you go to the instrument list & replace one of them (your best bet is the ‘Dummy’ instruments on the list; all of them are that one sharp midi noise since they don’t have any sound file actually), FEBuilder itself can compress the .wav files for you in a new window.

Other than that, your best bet to learn more would be to checkout the guides in here about music insertion, these two right here should help you with what you are looking for:

Music Insertion Guide for Beginners

But Music is Hard! When you first look into hacking, music can seem to be one of the most intimidating and difficult parts. Well, I’m here to show you that that impression is completely wrong! Music is very easy once you know what you’re doing; in fact, I’d argue that it may be one of the easiest parts of hacking. Step 1: Making Music I won’t spend too long on this, but there’s a few important things you should keep in mind while making your music if you want to later insert it into GBA. M…

Inserting Custom Sound Samples

Introduction Hopefully at this point you’ve been reading my other tutorials and are getting a good grasp on how the sound system works for the GBAFE games. If you haven’t read them already, and don’t know anything about the topics: Sappy Graphical User Interface (GUI) Explained Basic Voice Table Editing in Sappy Sample Sound Format Explained In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to insert custom samples into your ROM. There are two main methods to this. One uses Sappy exclusively, and the othe…