downloading drum sounds

[davejohno]

Hi, I am a complete idiot and need help. once I download drum sounds from the internet and uncompress them, how do I access them from cakewalk guitar studio 2?
I've heard to save it to the hard drive, but I've also heard you can save it to the sound card, Is that true?
Any help much appriciated

 

[Bones]

What format are they in, are they .Wav files? If so just use the 'import audio files' option in the file menu.

What sound card, some can hold samples in on-card RAM, but they usually have to be in a special format dependant on the card.

I don't know a lot about this, on my old card you could do it, but gettin the sample into the right format was a pain in the arse and I was better off jus usin a sequencer to play the files.

play around with it man...tis the best way really

Bones

 

[davejohno]

it is an ess solo sound card, the files are sfArk compressed files. I don't care if I use this on or not, so if you know of any good samples please let me know

 

[AlChuck]

sfArk is a compression utility for Sound Fonts, not unlike PKZip but optimized for Sound Fonts. You need the uncompressor to blow them up to their useable uncompressed form, but it's free. They are only useful if your ESS soundcard supports Sound Fonts, which I doubt it does. Though I guess it's possible they are DLS sounds, very much like Sound Fonts, and more likely to be supported by other cards.

They do not actually get stored on the soundcard, they reside on the hard disk and are loaded into RAM (either dedicated RAM on the sound card itself or system RAM) to be used.