java synthesizer that can use dls or sf2 files

Question

I am looking for a synthesizer that I can use with javax.sound.midi classes which allows me to use soundbank formats other than one by Beatnik. I could not find one and a 6 years old information tells me that there are none available. However I wonder if new projects have come up since.

I have asked a related question with a different approach to playing my own samples according to a midi sequence generated by a sequencer in java, but to no avail.

Answer 1

In Java 7 sf2-soundbanks can be loaded via the class SF2Soundbank which worked fine.

Answer 2

Try the high quality one offered at Java Sound API: Soundbanks.