SB Audigy: Can SOMEONE please explain SoundFonts?!

[MatthewF01]

I would like to figure out what the hell these soundfont banks are used for, and how I can take advantage of them? I want to do some multi-track recording on my computer, from instrument, to musical instrument amplifier, into computer. Whats the best way to go about doing this, and will the SoundFonts help me any??

Thanks! Hope someone can give me some advice on getting started recording with my Audigy, Im anxious....

 

[tritium4ever]

SoundFonts are collections of wavetable MIDI samples. The Audigy comes with 2MB, 4MB, and 8MB SoundFont sets. The bigger the set, the better the audio quality. If you're going to do any kind of MIDI music recording, the 8MB set is the best choice. For most other purposes, you'd be hard-pressed to hear the difference.

 

[MatthewF01]

ah ok. so now what? how do i use it?

🙂

any other tips on general recording using Audigy?

 

[TechMasterChen]

I haven't used them since the AWE64 days but you used to have to go into the Soundblaster settings and tell the card to use them. There used to be a spot in the AWE64 settings where I could point to a directory & file where a particular SoundFont was. Then if a game or recording device needed MIDI samples, the sound card automatically used the SoundFonts from that directory to represent a particular instrument.

I remember putting certain soundfonts in for Duke Nukem 3D...

At one time you could download these SoundFonts from an SB site, the 2MB files were free but the larger ones I think you had to buy??? Not sure what is there now.

Sorry if I generated more questions then answers...

 

[Kingofcomputer]

soundfonts is the creative's main weapon to sell SB from AWE64/32.

you could get some free and shareware soundfonts here:
http://www.hammersound.net/
there is a 118MB soundfonts set.

creative's default 2M, 4M, 8M are jokes.