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Just bought a Creative Audigy off of eBay and installed it in my system.
I have loaded a couple different general MIDI soundfonts, and I can tell that they each sound different so I'm confident they are working properly. However, I noticed while using the DirectX diagnostic utility that the Windows software synthesizer sounds about 5x better than the hardware synthesizer on the Audigy. Am I doing something wrong?
Pentium III 933
52 MB RAM
Windows 98 (first edition)
Plenty of hard disk space
Creative Soundblaster Audigy

You may find some files on some of the Logic boards (I know I stuck a few presets up on http://www.proapptips.com).
Why not roll your own? That's half the fun.
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