Sir Bunting
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Orlando, FL

hey, I've got another question. I asked this before on another forum some time ago but never got an answer.

I have a number of midi percussion packs, but they're unpredictable. Many of the instruments I put into my MIDI grid get no playback once the soundfont percussion pack is applied to the track. Also, some instruments are not what I intend. Things like the hi-hats sound like the casaba and all of the different toms sound like the bass drum.

Is there an application that will let me check inside the file to see which instruments are there and what they will sound like ?

fc
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Melbourne, Australia

Is it worth extracting the samples from the kit and loading them into your own sampler? (Kontact, Logic's sampler, etc)

Phil Harmonic
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The future

what are you using to play these soundfonts?

Sir Bunting
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Orlando, FL

I've never extracted samples from anything before. Is that hard to do ?

I use SynthFont to apply soundfonts. I make the MIDIs in Anvil Studios. I only have access to free music software right now.

fc
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Melbourne, Australia

I'm not really sure how the particular set that you're using works, but sometimes there are just folders of wav or aif (or other) files. But yeah, not sure beyond that.

fc
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Melbourne, Australia

http://www.personalcopy.com/sfpack.htm

Perhaps some of the links at the bottom of the Wiki entry will be enlightening?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont

fc
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Melbourne, Australia

Also, Awave Studio seems to have soundfont editing functionality.

It sounds as though the MIDI map is incorrect in what sample it links to... hm... no idea how to fix though, sorry!

Sir Bunting
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Orlando, FL

Thanks for the links vinpous. I'm still messing around with sfpack to see if I can uncompress with it.

Phil Harmonic
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The future

also. if you need a free stable DAW.. reaper is free aside from a short nag screen at run time