Bare with me, I'm still new. So I got a laptop with a UW500 and Orion Platinum. All works well MIDI and audio wise, and I've been starting to pop in Kurzweil, and SF2 samples into Orion that are pretty fun. So I hear about and score this Vienna 2.x from Creative and install it to make my own soundfonts.... Bonk! 'ERROR; Can not find suitable driver to run Vienna blah-blah-blah...'. I check the Help areas and can only find AWE driver error reports?

So what more do I need to use this Vienna software? I got ASIO, and Yamaha drivers, and also this Crystal WDM stuff? Go easy on me though as I can't cook either - I keep burning my salads.

Vienna uses the soundfont handling within the awe /sb /audigy soundcards and so you will need one of these in order to run vienna.. sorry as I guess thats not the news that you wanted to hear..!

But you confirmed my fears atleast. I thought AWE was a souncard brand. (SB I know for sure.) So no nifty little driver or 'emulator' I could get for my lap dog huh?

Well shoot!

Audio Compositor (http://home.att.net/~audiocompositor/) is a nice program that will allow you to create and edit SF2 files (although its primary purpose is the high quality rendering of midi files). It's $40 and there's a demo. I believe AWave can do this too, but I haven't used it.

Yup, try AWave. It will do exactly what you are looking for. You can also create SF2 files with VSampler...

John Westwood wrote:

Go easy on me though as I can't cook either - I keep burning my salads.

this is not the first VERY funny post I read from you .. you should have been a comedian ....

Dunno if it's worth anything but there's also Alive
http://www.soundfaction.com/products.htm
Cheers

Patchworkcat...I also would have mentioned Alive, except that to audition your work, you need either a SoundBlaster card or LiveSynth Pro DXi... has this changed?

Nevertheless, a great SF2 editor if your system meets the criteria.