Sonar SoundFonts

[geforcemx2000]

I have Sonar 4 and VSampler 3 and was trying to get Soundfonts to work properly. It works but I'm getting a very small delay thats out of sync with the rest of the midi tracks.

Here is what I did:

1) Created a new blank project in Sonar 4.
2) Added two new tracks, 1 audio and 1 midi track.
3) I patched a effect to the audio track to use VSampler 3 DXi2 Synth.
4) Loaded a drum soundfont when the VSampler screen poped up.
4) Then I took a midi file from the internet that contained drums, bass and a few other instruments and imported that into Sonar.
5) Changed the Drum track from Microsoft GS Wavetable to VSampler 3 DXi2 Synth 1.

It plays the sampled drums fine for the drum track, it's just lagging behind the rest of the midi tracks so it sounds awful. The lag is less then a second but is still to noticable to use. Am I better off buying a sound card that supports soundfonts on hardware? What would cause this to happen?

I'm running a AMD 1600+ CPU
Win XP SP2
512mb ram
160GB Hard drive.

[Jim Y]

Are you using MME by any chance? - The audio latency is horrible with that.
What soundcard / audio interface are you using?
It may be a plug-in delay compensation problem with v-sampler but as a Sonar2 user I'm not familiar with that aspect. I have an earlier version of V-sampler and don't see any latency problems.

What are you comparing the timing to? If its the GS softsynth, its audio latency is out of Sonars control. Compare it to another softsynth?

For basic soundfont playback, you might try searching for the SFz soundfont player. It's a simple VSTi plugin and free.

[geforcemx2000]

I am using MME but that wasn't my first choice. I had to use it because it's the only thing that works, other wise I get that midi mapping dialog pop up saying midi does not work. You know the dialog that pops up when Sonar is first installed.

The sound system I'm using is the one that's built onto my Abit Motherboard which uses the nForce 2 Chipset.