SF2 soundfonts

Hi does anyone knwo how I can use my collection of SFs in MC6? Thanks

Hi thanks - but how do i load the SF player? Is it availanble in MC6? Thanks again.

My mistake, I thought you had the SFZ player and were having issues playing the fonts. 

Actually, I used to use SFZ a lot back when I first got started. Mainly because the fonts sounded better, generally speaking, than the midi patches in TTS and other synths which used algorithms to create the sounds. Fonts used waves in many cases to give a more realistic sound.

However, when I got MC5, it came with Cakewalk Sound Center (as does MC6) and after listening to the sounds in it, I stopped using the SFZ player totally. When I switched to my new DAW, I did not bother to migrate my collection of fonts or the player to it and have not used them since. I tend to work with a limited number of synths to do what I do..... so perhaps, I should (if only for educational reasons) open SFZ that came with MC6 and see what is in it. 

In my opinion, CSC has much better sounds and they are sampled, hence better, and there are additional sound libraries available for $20 each (last time I looked) and I highly recommend them. 

You don't assign SFZ.... it is the destination for the midi.... you will assign the midi to go to the synth SFZ ....

THis is one way to do it if you have an existing midi track.....

Insert a new audio track

Insert SFZ into it's FX bin. Minimize the synth....

Select the output box in the midi track and select SFZ from it's available options..... 

Be sure a font is loaded in SFZ and click play.. you should hear the music. 


If you use INSERT SYNTH and create 2 new tracks then you can simply input the midi (coming in) to that midi track..... if played in on a piano keyboard, you should hear it playing.