It's amazing what can be done with soundfonts & for next to nothing.I can't install Band in a Box in Windows because I don't have Windows - my computer is 100% Tux!
One thing I was experimenting with the other night was editing the volumes of individual drums in a drumset ie brushes too loud so instead of having to alter the brush velocity in each of the styles, may be easier to alter the brush sample. I'm not terribly familiar with this one, but as a freebie, it's brilliant. ie you're using synthfont & you want to edit the font, you just click the viena icon & it takes you to the editor. ( don't confuse Viena & creative's Vienna )The 2 programs actually work in conjunction. On the same site he has a soundfont editor called Viena.
#BIAB SF2 FILES FULL#
Synthfont is available below, it's a full working version, (though a donation is asked for after evaluation to help him keep upgrading his software) I have other choices, including Soundfaction Alive, my creative soundcard Vienna editor but I thought that since the Librarian is free, it may encourage someone else to give it a go. I'll do the 2 seperate fonts mainly because of the drum mapping.įor putting my custom soundfont together I'll can use In this way I can take note of which font has the best piano, which one has the best bass, strings etcĮven though BIAB has 100's of styles I'm basing my choice of prefferable instruments on the styles I use the most. Papalmedia for piano, sgm180 strings & sgm128 drums or any mix of Saving the BIAB song/style as a midifile, I can load it into Synthfont and listen to it using various soundfonts at the same time
Using them in BIAB, I can only load one gm soundfont at a time, so I have to listen to the song/style with the one font, be it sgm128, sgm180, papalmedia etc doesn't make it easy to compare whether I should be using a papalmedia piano, with sgm180 strings & sgm128 drums. I haven't found a satisfactory way of auditioning the fonts. sty files with GM drum mapping is that in certain instances you get incorrect drums playing. I thought the best way to go about it would be to build up a custom soundfont. One may contain good piano's & have poor strings etc etc Having gone thru the various banks, there's some good, some reasonable & some really poor voices.īasically I haven't found a single gm/xg soundfont bank that I'm totally satisfied with.
#BIAB SF2 FILES PLUS#
Gm & xg soundfont banks consisting of the 128 gm voices plus gm/gs, xg drumsets. ( donation requested)įor putting together my soundfont I'll probably use I've also had a look at the Viena soundfont editor. Load it into Synthfont & audition the various soundfont banks on each of the tracks ( each track can have a different gm bank) and choose the best version of a particular instrument to put into my soundfont. I've now decided to try using Synthfont by creating a midifile of a BIAB or OMB style( only takes a minute or so). To date I've actually been splitting them up into individual instruments & deleting any really poor ones & putting together a library. I've been working on trying to put together my ideal soundfont for my omb styles ( xg ) There's a mix of good & bad instruments in all of them. May have found a solution for auditioning my numerous banks of soundfonts & styles.
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