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Phyl
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While surfing this site I found a great thread that discussed using sound fonts to enhance the sound of MIDI drum tracks. The only requirement is that your sound card accept MIDI input and be able to use sound fonts.
Background - I'm using SONAR 2.0 running on a 1.8 Mhz Pentium IIII computer and have an Aardvark Q10 connected. I composed a MIDI drum track using the Session Drummer that comes with SONAR and managed to get the sound chip on my mother board to play the drum sounds. Eventually I guess I'll have to run a connector from my computer's line out jack to an input of the Aardvark in order to record the drum sounds to an audio track.
Now to my problem/question. Following the instructions in the thread I mentioned above, I'm trying to use the sound fonts instead of whatever stock synthesis routines the mother board sound chip has, but no luck. When I pull down the Options menu in SONAR the sound fonts option isn't highlighted leading me to believe SONAR has already figured out that my sound chip doesn't support sound fonts.
Is this a good assumption or am I completely off base about how this whole MIDI/sound font thing operates?
Bottom line, I'm trying to produce some great sounding drum tracks and would like information on how most people approach the task.
Thanks,
Phil
Background - I'm using SONAR 2.0 running on a 1.8 Mhz Pentium IIII computer and have an Aardvark Q10 connected. I composed a MIDI drum track using the Session Drummer that comes with SONAR and managed to get the sound chip on my mother board to play the drum sounds. Eventually I guess I'll have to run a connector from my computer's line out jack to an input of the Aardvark in order to record the drum sounds to an audio track.
Now to my problem/question. Following the instructions in the thread I mentioned above, I'm trying to use the sound fonts instead of whatever stock synthesis routines the mother board sound chip has, but no luck. When I pull down the Options menu in SONAR the sound fonts option isn't highlighted leading me to believe SONAR has already figured out that my sound chip doesn't support sound fonts.
Is this a good assumption or am I completely off base about how this whole MIDI/sound font thing operates?
Bottom line, I'm trying to produce some great sounding drum tracks and would like information on how most people approach the task.
Thanks,
Phil