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malgovert
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Hi everybody - have any of you really got to grips with these yet? And do you load them into your sblive or just access them from a directory on the desktop or elsewhere? Here's my latest soundfont saga:
I have this song almost done - I didn't like the gm piano so tried to access this 24mb steinway sf from a directory on the d/top - anyway it said not enough memory. So I loaded the steinway into the audiocard and was then able to attach it via Tools/Soundfonts, but it still wouldn't play. So I went back to the directory to get a smaller one - now it wouldn't attach, saying 'undefined soundfont error' - I saw the path in the attach-box began only with the name of the directory itself, instead of C:/windows/desktop... etc etc, didn't see what I could do about it, but when I dragged it out of the directory and onto the desktop, I was (for some reason) able to access and attach it from there... Then I thought well should I load that into the soundcard too, so I did, and it works ok... so I got my piano...
Trouble is now I can't get the other sounds I was using from sf banks in the desktop directory (and which I had already attached before any of this began) - 'rain' for example keeps changing to 'seashore' - it also seems that if you delete a track with a soundfont in the other tracks using the same sf bank are also affected. This is all with cwpa 8, btw.
I am wondering if the problem is occurring because I have one sf bank attched from inside the audiocard and one from the desktop directory - Do you know if you have to have all your soundfonts in one place - ie in the card or in a specific directory? has anyone found themselves in similar tangles when it comes to soundfonts? I thought I was almost done - it's driving me nuts
malgo.
I have this song almost done - I didn't like the gm piano so tried to access this 24mb steinway sf from a directory on the d/top - anyway it said not enough memory. So I loaded the steinway into the audiocard and was then able to attach it via Tools/Soundfonts, but it still wouldn't play. So I went back to the directory to get a smaller one - now it wouldn't attach, saying 'undefined soundfont error' - I saw the path in the attach-box began only with the name of the directory itself, instead of C:/windows/desktop... etc etc, didn't see what I could do about it, but when I dragged it out of the directory and onto the desktop, I was (for some reason) able to access and attach it from there... Then I thought well should I load that into the soundcard too, so I did, and it works ok... so I got my piano...
Trouble is now I can't get the other sounds I was using from sf banks in the desktop directory (and which I had already attached before any of this began) - 'rain' for example keeps changing to 'seashore' - it also seems that if you delete a track with a soundfont in the other tracks using the same sf bank are also affected. This is all with cwpa 8, btw.
I am wondering if the problem is occurring because I have one sf bank attched from inside the audiocard and one from the desktop directory - Do you know if you have to have all your soundfonts in one place - ie in the card or in a specific directory? has anyone found themselves in similar tangles when it comes to soundfonts? I thought I was almost done - it's driving me nuts
malgo.