New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing.

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Chris.Albert37
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2011/05/25 20:23:33 (permalink)

New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing.

I'll admit this is probably a lack of experience issue so please be patient. I've previously written music in MIDI writing software and have imported my tracks into SONAR no problem. I also have been playing my MIDI tracks through software synthesizers and understand (at least basically) whats going on there. However I never really liked any of the banks or patches available and at Beagle's suggestion on a separate thread, downloaded SoundBrewer patches. I am now at a loss in trying to figure out how to get those patches INTO my tracks on SONAR, please help.
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    Beagle
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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/05/25 21:25:56 (permalink)
    hi Chris - which version of soundbrewer patches did you download?  he has 4 versions, I think, Kontakt, Gigastudio, Halion and SFZ.  unless you have Kontakt, Gigastudio or Halion, then the only way to use soundbrewer sounds would be to have downloaded SFZ and use the SFZ+ (free download) from cakewalk. to use them.

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    Chris.Albert37
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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/05/31 20:40:48 (permalink)
    I got the SFZ studio version. Thanks. I'll try that.
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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/06/01 00:53:43 (permalink)
    You can also use Dimension LE to play sfz files.



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    Chris.Albert37
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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/06/03 17:38:14 (permalink)
    OK another problem. I can pull up the SFZ box and select the sound brewer patches fine, but whenever i click play the box saying prgm goes blank and i have to click it again for it to engage and get sound. What am i doing wrong?
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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/06/03 20:16:14 (permalink)
    I don't know, I've never seen that behavior, but it's been a while since I've used SFZ.  if you press play the 2nd time does it work?

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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/06/03 23:30:09 (permalink)
    Is the song starting at measure 1? Try adding a few empty measures to the front to give the synths time to crank up. "Insert>Time/Measures".

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    Re:New to MIDI and I'm not sure what I'm doing. 2011/06/05 16:56:59 (permalink)
    Thanks Greg that fixed everything! Thanks too Beagle both of you are life savers.
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