sfz plugin will only play one sfz file ? (solved)

I'm not sure how useful the sfz plugin is, but I'm trying to get it to work anyway.
I understand that it's a 64 bit plugin, unlike sfz+ which is supposed to be 32 bit.

The plugin will play the "Dimension Mini Piano.sfz" file that is located in the sfz folder in Vstplugins no problem.

But if I load any other sfz file, and I've tried a bunch, no sound is produced and no activity whatsoever.
If I reload the Mini Piano file everything works fine again.

I see nothing odd about this sfz file.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong ?

wow,that's a great soundfont player, I just watched all the videos on the site and rally am digging this.
any advice paul where I should start out if I want to begin creating my own sfz files ?

http://www.cakewalk.com/D.../article.aspx?aid=108, Simon Cann's book http://noisesculpture.com/cakewalk-synthesizers and all the examples already installed on your machine are good references. At least that is how I started learning about sfz files. To edit sfz files I use a text editor but http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html is a nice dedicated sfz editor. For Session Drummer, I started by copying existing sfz files and used search and replace functions in the editor to build new drum kits using my own wav files.

scook : "The name of the plugin is misleading and so is the fact that it plays the "Dimension Mini Piano.sfz.".


I'm speechless.

SFZ was one of Rene's first (if not his first) and an attempt to expand the Soundfont engine.  Back when SFs were the main soft synth and file system.  SFZ will play the samples, it just doesn't understand all the extra bits of information in an SFZ file.  Since few synths these days will play SFs and don't have Creative boards which included the hardware to process them, SFZ is a handy tool if you have a lot of these files from days of yore.

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I see nothing odd about this sfz file. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong ?

 
It's been a loooong time since I used the sfz player, but I'll take a crack at this anyway.
 
Although the Dimension Mini Piano.sfz says 'Version 2', I still think that the sfz player plays by sfz version 1 format rules.  So there's always the possibility of an unrecognized or superceded opcode causing some weirdness.
 
Where are the .wav files located?  There is no default Multisamples or Sample Pool folders in the sfz player (the first two places that an sfz version 2 synth will 'look' for its defined <region>s).  And I don't recall being able to get the 'redirect' opcodes (like default_path=) to work in the sfz player.
 
So, I believe that all of your .wav samples have to be in properly matched subfolders under the SFZ folder.  .sfz file loading works when the sfz player 'knows' where to look for the component samples.