Hello everyone,
so I have a couple of MIDI-files that I arranged with another programm and I'd like to make them sound better by adding my own samples and soundfonts to them. When I check my MIDI output devices all I get is "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" which is checked. That one does only play the standard-microsoft-samples that of course don't sound very good. Is there any way to change this?
I'm fairly new to SONAR, by the way.
 
Thanks in advance,
Yaen

use a vst instrument, check the get started guide, have fun!

Welcome to the forum!
 
To play your own samples triggered by MIDI you need a sampler or sample player, in which you load the samples on different keys. Then you use the sampler like any soft synth. I don't know if X1 LE comes with a sampler. If it does, the most likely candidate for you to find there is DropZone.
 
If you want to test with soft synths in general, I assume you have TTS-1.
At www.kvraudio.com you can find lots of soft synths, both commercial and free.

Kalle Rantaaho
Welcome to the forum!
 
To play your own samples triggered by MIDI you need a sampler or sample player, in which you load the samples on different keys. Then you use the sampler like any soft synth. I don't know if X1 LE comes with a sampler. If it does, the most likely candidate for you to find there is DropZone.
 
If you want to test with soft synths in general, I assume you have TTS-1.
At  you can find lots of soft synths, both commercial and free.

Thanks for your reply! DropZone doesn't come with my version of SONAR but your link did help me a lot. Found a sampler called Jeskola there. It's free and lets me load my samples :) The only thing that bothers me a bit is that it doesn't play all notes in the MIDIs (some are just left out) but that may just be a problem during the programm is on. Maybe it's fixed as soon as the files are exported. I'll test that.
 
Thanks again,
-Yaen

A decent free sampler TX16Wx

scook
A decent free sampler

Thanks, I'll check that out too :)
 
-Yaen

scook
A decent free sampler

Hm this looks decent indeed but is there a way to use one sample for the entire keyboard? (with pitching, cause that works quite well for most of my samples, acutally) Or do I have to pick each key individually changing the pitch of the notes in another programm first?
EDIT: Found the solution. Just go to the scale option and select normal.