Music Creator 3 & 5

What synth are you using to hear the MIDI play? If you're using anything other than the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth, you first bounce the MIDI to audio, then export that audio to your desired location on the hard drive.
Some info on your computer will help, too.
How fast and how much RAM? What sound card? What operating system?
Welcome to the forum.

Others know more about sound fonts than me, but I'm pretty sure the bounce process is the same:
Select both the MIDI track and the synths track by clicking on them while holding down the computer keyboard's Ctrl key.
Go to 'Edit>Bounce To Track(s)' and choose some options in the Bounce dialog box. Usually, the What You hear option works best.
The synth track is then converted to audio in a new track.
Is that what you're doing with the sound font track?

What is the sound font and sound font player you're using?
Maybe someone else can try it or tell you how to do it.

in Music Creator 5, I just use the MIDI track and load up soundfont. it works.

 
I don't think that's right. You may be loading a a MIDI clip into a MIDI track, but the sound you hear is probably the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth, which is notoriously hard to bounce to audio.
Without a sound font player, and the MIDI track directed to that player, you'll just hear the Wavetable synth, or nothing.
Herb, where are you?
I think I already mentioned I don't know much about sound fonts, except what I read here, but I know it needs a player to hear it.

I am here.... Greg.

Bangity.... go to my website and read the pages on Music...MC4 especially, there is a lot of stuff there on using TTS and midi and soundfonts.....and it's in easy to understand step by step instructions.


What sound card are you using?  This is a very important question.

In MC... the export to an MP3 is a 30 day trial.... so past that your only option is to export as a wave and use a converter.... there are several free ones on line.

 In MC ... understand that ALL midi tracks & their synths are TWO seperate tracks.  In a nut shell......You record data into a MIDI track. Then you also have a softsynth installed in a different AUDIO track. Your midi keyboard sends data, the platform (MC5) directs the data to the midi track. The midi track is sending the data to the synth that lives in the audio track and the synth outputs it's audio from that audio track to the soundcard and them to the speakers.

As you set up the 2 tracks you will use the track properties window to select the inputs and outputs to the various tracks... this is covered in detail in my webpages....

depending on the synth you have inserted into the audio track.... the sound you hear will depend on the patch or sample played by the synth. In the past, that synth was in the soundcard and used GM.... but when you start to use the softsynth and the patches and samples, the sound quality will blow you away compared to the old GM stuff.

I loaded 4 different soundfonts and they both sounded the same in MC5 and FL9.

This makes me think that you are using the GM stuff.... try loading a soft synth according to the directions in my web pages and also Tutorial 8 in MC.

No, what I mean is that I am hearing the Soundfonts from both Apps while choosing Creative Audigy 4 Synth A as the Output. I lfet microsoft GS alone.

I am confused.

Okay, I did not use SFZ as the player. I used the Soundfont Bank Manager in the Option -> Soundfont and load the Bank from the MIDI Track Properties and it still works.

OK... I keep forgetting that certain soundcards have the soundfonts built in..... so it is possible that you are hearing the built in soundfont from your card....same as GM in the way it works.


So.... take a few minutes and visit my website and work through setting up TTS to play 3 sounds....It is there, and it will help you to see how to set up the channel numbers and the patches so that TTS plays piano, bass and strings at the same time.

If you have problems come back and post the details.

Remember this: setting up midi and synths is much easier to do on a USB or firewire based interface...... it's not impossible to do on a factory card but there are inherent limitations in factory cards that are at times quickly reached by using Cakewalk products.