How to get full blown Sound Center?

Sound Center ships with MC5 but seems to be missing instruments. How does one get the complete Sound Center?
 
Thanks.

Hmm... some of the literature suggests that Sound Center is expandable. There are tons of expansion packs at the Cakewalk store, but they don't mention SC as one of the target synths; just the other soft synths Cakewalk produces or distributes.
That might be worth looking into and I'm certain that someone else will provide more info later.

I think there was a discussion on this some time back..... and the result was that SS does have place holders for more stuff, but nothing that Cake currently sells will work in SS. Perhaps they put the place holders there with the intention of creating some new add-on packs later.

In the meantime, you can but Dimension LE and the Garritan Pocket Orchestra (GPO) from cake to increase your sounds with a new synth.

DimLE & GPO on sale for $49 now.... regular price is $99

It is advantageous to look at the store/products on a regular basis IF you are looking for more stuff to make noise .... since they do tend to run some really sweet specials from time to time..... like the time they ran this same package of DimLE/GPO for $20...... oh yeah..... that's the one I got.... but even at $49 that's a 50% OFF sale. Grab it.  You gotta check the store because that do not announce these specials to the world. Occasionally when someone sees a good special, they will post it here or in the software forum. You gotta keep your eyes open and move quick because the specials do not last.

actually that's DimPRO and Rapture for only $99.  DimPro used to be $250 by itself!

and in addition to that, Studio Instruments is downloadable for $19.  you already have SI drums, but the full studio instruments comes with bass, piano and violin sounds and midi loops.

DimLE and Garritan Pocket Orchestra is available for $49 download.

Session Drummer 2 is $10

square 1 is free download

I think these are all "monthly specials" and might not be that price starting Nov1.

I thought you meant you had the DL version and wanted the other 100 instrument sounds.
In any case, I think I remember reading last night that SC is based on the Dimension sound engine, so those listings are probably artifacts left over from the crippling of Dimension. The names are there but not the sound files.
If you have 150 instrument sounds, then you have the full Sound Center.

Seems odd that they would list instruments on the menu but not have anything there. And I've installed this a few times so don't think it's an installation issue. I will let you know what Cakewalk tells me.

yep....

there is another special with Dimpro & Rapture here for $99 bucks.... regular $450 so that is a really good deal.... you can even listen to the sound samples on that page too.

maybe they had planned to add these and ran out of time before the release, or they plan to add these at a later date to sell an add on pack.....or...... just to get you chompin at the bit to buy more sounds from the other bigger synths now....

either way, there are good sounding samples out there to fill the need for a bassoon, if you really need one.

For a long time I used SFZ and went looking for the free samples at KRV audio and other places.... google search free sound fonts and look around.  That's what I used a lot of before I bought the bigger expensive synths I now have.  There are quiet a few really nice sounding FREE fonts out there... you just gotta poke around and find them.

I have not tried the links recently on my web site link page but that is a good place to start.

 they still work:   http://www.kvraudio.com/g...bsp;    and    http://www.sf2midi.com/soundfonts/

that's 2... there are more online.   " Free sound fonts"

I really had my heart set on an extended bassoon solo....

Greg, now you've taken me down a different road....I created a TTS-1 track and am playing my Casio Keyboard through it and getting lots of good sounds, although the mapping has changed. In other words, what would be trumpet on the Casio is now flute.....The TTS-1 screen is set to Piano 1. Are there other instruments hidden in there?

I believe your Casio has some proprietary banks, and you need instrument definitions if you want Cakewalk to play MIDI tracks using the Casio sounds. I don't believe support for that is supported in MC5. I seem to recall seeing a way around that, but I'm not sure.
TTS-1 used the General MIDI 2 Patch/Bank selection. This is a standardized set, and the following article shows a complete listing of banks and patches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI_Level_2
Note, the patch numbers are off by one, because the GM patch numbers start at 1, but TTS-1 starts at 0. This is fairly common, and it has to do with software implementation.
hth

Thanks gents for your help.  Still waiting to hear from Cakewalk about the missing instruments.

the missing instruments.

 
Well, if you have 150 instruments, none are missing. That's the limit with Sound Center, and the only way to get more than 150 instruments is to purchase Dimension.
How many instruments do you have that play?

Proteus is still out there somewhere... since I just built an XP DAW I decided to get it and load it...and yeah baby... it works fine.


Proteus VX is here

and it's still free.