Troubles with SFZ

When I attempt to load a soundfont file into SFZ running in SONAR X3, nothing happens. The arrow row the right of the label File does not display a pull-down. If I click in the grey box to the right, I get a file browser opening, but no matter which of my sf2 files I navigate to and choose, the box remains blank and there are no sounds audible.
 
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance, 

Rockin' - installing that tomorrow, I've been looking for a decent replacement. Thanks...

Yea, I gave up on sfz. For sfz files, DimPro, sforzando or TX16wx. For sf2 TX16Wx. If you have trouble with the current release of TX16Wx some report good results with the beta release.

OK you we need Dimension Pro for REX (REX player is 32 bit so goodbye). Still interested to see what people use for REX, will start a separate thread.

One thing cool about sforzando is the presets for dim pro and alchemy will be listed and open up and in a simpler manner than the actual plugins

CakeAlexS
 
With Dimension Pro it's always confusing. I look at my Dimension Pro SFZ folder and it it seems not all the samples are listed (even after pressing F5 in the program browser). 

Dimension pro's browser shows dimension pro programs (.prog files), not sfz files.  
to load a sfz file into dimesion pro, use the element loader and browse to C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\multisamples (that should be the default).  
a handful of the sfz files aren't loaded into any dp programs.  
be warned, using a sfz file made for dimension in sforzando or alchemy will not load of the additional elements like dp's lfos or filters and neither sforzando nor alchemy implement the full sfz specification, so you will probably eventually get a crash or freeze. 
 
for example, waveguide and oscillator functions that are part of many dp sfz files...
http://ariaengine.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/5806/questions-about-wavetable-oscillator-in-sforzandoaria/p1

Thanks swamp. I kinda figured it might bite me at some point

Thanks for all the replies! 
I guess I missed something over the last decade or so. I've got a bunch of Sound Font files (sf2) but don't really know what sfz is. I'll have to do a bit of Googling and reading.
I'm not on front of my DAW at the moment, so I can't check, but I think my sfz says just sfz, not sfz+. I tried fiddling with the mode setting but it didn't help.
I'll check out alchemy and sforzando. 

Just to follow up and "close" this thread, an update:
 
I looked and saw I had only sfz on my system. So I downloaded and installed sfz+ from the Cakewalk store. It has no trouble loading up Sound Fonts as long as you set the mode to PR32 (the default mode gives you a "not enough memory to load Sound Font" message).
 
(What are these modes in sfz and sfz+, anyway? I found this information in a preview chapter of a book,
Cakewalk Synthesizers: From Presets to Power User by Simon Cann, which I found on the Delmar Cengage Learning website. I can't post links until I've posted two more times so I'll come back and add it later. If you google "sfz modes" it comes up at the top of the list. Looks like it might be a good book to have; it's available on Amazon.)
 
In my googling about the sfz format, I found an free editor that can be used to convert Sound Fonts into sfz files called sfZed. Again, can't post a URL  but if you google for "sfz editor" it'll come up.
 
So I'm a happy camper -- if I want to use any of my old Sound Fonts, now I can again.
 

I think I'm blessed now, so here's the link to the sfZed site:
 
http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html

Oh, and here's a link to the preview chapter of Simon Cann's book: 
 
http://www.delmarlearning...3-314-7_CH04_FINAL.pdf