Recording soundfonts...

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So I've got this buzz machine that plays soundfonts, but it only has 8 levels of polyphony and just isn't that great. Anybody know of a free soundfont player (preferably VSTi or DXi)?

So I've also got this SB Live! that I use mostly for gaming, but I decided to check out its soundfont support today. Loading and playing soundfonts is no problem, but actually recording them is another story. How do people do this? Do you run a patch between your soundblaster and your recording system? That's kind of an ugly solution.

Slackmaster 2000
 
By recording, do you mean recording them to an audio track like you would do with any other MIDI track that you wanted to get into a WAV file? They record through the SB Live's internal WAV device just like its regular on-board synth does.

Oh, I see, you mean how does your recording software see them to play them? I use SONAR and it's a no-brainer, it has a utility to "attach" the sounds as banks to one of SB Live's vitual devices. Then you simply select the desired bank and patch in the MIDI Properties for each track.

I thought other software packages did something similar but I'm not sure. Anybody?
 
I think you may have to load up the soundfont that you used originally in the midi recording in audiohq/soundfonts in the creative software before you use a midi player (any midi player).
 
The problem is that while I can use MIDI to trigger the soundfonts, a) I can't hear them along with the audio coming out of the Delta 1010 and b) the soundfont parts don't show up when I mixdown to a wave!

The only solution I can think of at the moment is to route the output of the live to a couple inputs on the Delta, but yick. I'm hoping maybe there's an internal (driver) way to do the routing.

....or, I can just use a VSTi soundfont player if anybody knows of a really really cheap one?

Alchuck, I use n-Track and have never used it's MIDI capabilities (not much anyhow)...I'll check.

Slackmaster 2000
 
You can't route the SB's output internally to the Delta's output in any way; what I do is simply use the SB to record itself, and once it's recorded as audio, it's just another audio track. No point routing it out and taking up inputs on the Delta, sending it out the Live's DAC, etc., except that you can record it directly to 24 bit that way; if you use my approach you have to upsample the track you get to use it in a 24-bit project (unless nTrack handles tracks of different sample rates at the same time; SONAR doesn't).
 
SoundFont Player

Hey Slackmaster2K,

Virtual Sampler will play SoundFonts. It's free to download, but there is a fee if you want to register it.

Currently it's V2.74 though there is a VSampler 3 in alpha test. Don't bother with VS3 for the time being, it's more than a little buggy just yet :) Sound-wise VS3 blitzes VS2.74

Search for a thread by James Argo regarding SoundFonts. I gave James a step-by-step description of how to use VS2.74 and load SF2s.

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BluesMeister

ps I love being called a Newbie at my age ;)
 
AlChuck said:
You can't route the SB's output internally to the Delta's output in any way; what I do is simply use the SB to record itself, and once it's recorded as audio, it's just another audio track. No point routing it out and taking up inputs on the Delta, sending it out the Live's DAC, etc., except that you can record it directly to 24 bit that way; if you use my approach you have to upsample the track you get to use it in a 24-bit project (unless nTrack handles tracks of different sample rates at the same time; SONAR doesn't).
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VERRY GOOD answer Mr AlChuck...
It's freaky, I was about to post the same answer... Whops...

And yep..., Mr BluesMeister was right about VS anyway. Stick with that...
 
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