soundfonts in cwgs/sblive

[malgovert]

Can anyone explain the advantages of actually loading soundfonts in to the sblive card for use with cakewalk - I find that if I go to tools/soundfonts, and attach the file directly, I can use them from the desktop or whatever directory I have them in. Why would I load them into the card? I feel I may be missing something... Thanks Malgo.

[Torpid-x]

Well from my tiny knowledge of the midi thing, soundfont files aren't loaded into the sound card permanently, they are regular files that are proccessed by the sound card or they load automatically when opened. Downloading or creating them expands the number of banks/patches you have available. I guess you could store them in any directory on your hard drive or a removeable disk. I could be wrong, I need to learn about them too.

Rich

[malgovert]

Yeah that's how it seems to me too - but I know if you go to sblive audioHQ you can actually load them into the card even before you open cakewalk - I am wondering if it has something to do with filling up the banks - I notice that if I just attach files from a directory when in cwgs, then I have to use a different bank for each sf - which means each bank only has the number of patches that happen to be in that particular sf file. Maybe if you load them into the card you can load several sf files into one bank. I'm not sure. Can't try it out right now as I'm not at home but will give it a go later and see. Regards Malgo.

[Torpid-x]

oh yeah..I see what your saying. maybe thats for peaple who don't have a program like cakewalk.
thanks for making me look there, I found that piano Ive been looking for.

Rich

[Torpid-x]

I found this link on vienna you may want to check out.

[AlChuck]

I think that the usefulness is that you can pre-load the memory with Sound Fonts you always use; then they are just there for the picking inside Cakewalk by selecting the appropriate bank. If you don't, you can always load up from Cakewalk, but then you would have to do this for each new project (unless this is something that can be saved in a template, in which case you could create a blank file already set up this way, and accomplish the same thing).

-AlChuck