I´m searching a Software Synthesizer with SF2 compatibility and Windows-Driver Capability so any Program can use it. PLZ Help!
Software Synthesizer with SF2 compatibility and...
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- KVRAF
- 3476 posts since 9 Apr, 2003 from NE Ohio, USA
It sounds like you either need a standalone soundfont player, or a host + vsti/dxi soundfont player.rukasu wrote:HI!
I´m searching a Software Synthesizer with SF2 compatibility and Windows-Driver Capability so any Program can use it. PLZ Help!
One possibility would be Cakewalk Home Studio [2004] Version 2 plus sfz.
Another would be use sfz standalone along with ASIO4All to translate the ASIO to WDM.
Another possibility would be SynthFont.
I'm sure there's other solutions, too - but it depends on whether you want to do real-time performance vs sequencing, how much latency is acceptable, etc.
Doug
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- KVRAF
- 3476 posts since 9 Apr, 2003 from NE Ohio, USA
Ok, now I follow what you mean a little better.rukasu wrote:I mean Games or something not VST.
If the game can select what MIDI port it talks to (or you can set the Windows default player), then the solutions listed above - in conjunction with a "Virtual MIDI cable" like Midiyoke or Hubi's loopback, would work.
Someone gave a description of using Midiyoke + SFZ standalone as their default Windows MIDI player over in the RGC forum about six months ago.
Doug
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 8 posts since 11 Aug, 2004
dougsyo wrote:Ok, now I follow what you mean a little better.rukasu wrote:I mean Games or something not VST.
If the game can select what MIDI port it talks to (or you can set the Windows default player), then the solutions listed above - in conjunction with a "Virtual MIDI cable" like Midiyoke or Hubi's loopback, would work.
Someone gave a description of using Midiyoke + SFZ standalone as their default Windows MIDI player over in the RGC forum about six months ago.
Doug
Thanks.
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- KVRAF
- 7412 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
Ah - that explains your post in the rgc:audio forum, then..! Some more details there would have been very useful.
Okay, you want to use sfz as your system MIDI device. You're stuffed. sfz doesn't default channel 10 to drums and you can't tell it to. Your MIDI source must explicitly send a Bank 128 command on Channel 10 to get drums. Nothing does this...
You need to use sfz+ for this trick. What you then do is install MIDI Yoke and use one end of a MIDI Yoke junction as your MIDI Output port and open the other end of the same junction as the MIDI Input port in sfz+. Set "Single File Mode" and "GM Mode (ch10 drums)", load your soundfont. Then save the configuration as sfz+default.fxp in the directory sfz+.exe lives.
If you're after a free way of doing this and you've a fast PC, you can try TiMidity++ - I use the one from here: http://onefreehost.com/saxguru/Links.html but it's also available at http://timidity.sf.net if you look hard.
Okay, you want to use sfz as your system MIDI device. You're stuffed. sfz doesn't default channel 10 to drums and you can't tell it to. Your MIDI source must explicitly send a Bank 128 command on Channel 10 to get drums. Nothing does this...
You need to use sfz+ for this trick. What you then do is install MIDI Yoke and use one end of a MIDI Yoke junction as your MIDI Output port and open the other end of the same junction as the MIDI Input port in sfz+. Set "Single File Mode" and "GM Mode (ch10 drums)", load your soundfont. Then save the configuration as sfz+default.fxp in the directory sfz+.exe lives.
If you're after a free way of doing this and you've a fast PC, you can try TiMidity++ - I use the one from here: http://onefreehost.com/saxguru/Links.html but it's also available at http://timidity.sf.net if you look hard.