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n3p5u5
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Topics: 31
Replies: 315
Registered: 11.Oct.04 |
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Hey everybody. Thanks for reading this. Just to give some perspective in advance, I'm a FL Studio user trying to do tech support for a friend several hundred miles away using software I've never even seen.  The problem is that she bought Cakewalk PA 9.0 a while ago and has never actually been able to get sound out of the thing. Supposedly her computer has no usable MIDI-out devices... even after installing the extra PCI soundcard I sent her on the hunch that she just had an outdated machine.
So my n00b question is this: isn't there some way for Cakewalk to use the wave mapper instead of the midi mapper for playback, with soundfonts or something? I tried (briefly) consulting the documentation for this issue, but the only mention of soundfonts involves loading them into the actual memory of the soundcard. My own experience with soundfonts is that they're just an outdated multi-sample format that's like fasttracker .XI files only much much better so this is beyond me. Shouldn't I be able to send her some cheap freeware .sf2 file and have all the output routed through that the same way I would with FL soundfont player?
Thanks for wading through this, I look forward to your answers.
"I call architecture Frozen Music" - Goethe
"I hate music, it's got too many notes" - the Replacements
"Composers are always too quiet on their days off" - Mystic Ark
"Everything has been done, but not by me. Not yet." - Anonymous
"Let thy instrument tell us the thoughts of thy heart that words cannot express." - Chrono Cross
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n3p5u5
Artist
Topics: 31
Replies: 315
Registered: 11.Oct.04 |
nobody has any ideas?
"I call architecture Frozen Music" - Goethe
"I hate music, it's got too many notes" - the Replacements
"Composers are always too quiet on their days off" - Mystic Ark
"Everything has been done, but not by me. Not yet." - Anonymous
"Let thy instrument tell us the thoughts of thy heart that words cannot express." - Chrono Cross
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aulin
Artist
Topics: 5
Replies: 364
Registered: 27.Jan.03 |
| Hmm. Well. Using a VST or DX-based Soundfont-player could work. A good freeware player is: SFZ. Go to HammerSound for many nice and versatile soundfont collections. |
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m0d
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Topics: 30
Replies: 317
Registered: 13.Mar.04 |
I use CWPA 9 all the time.
It's old. Antiquated, and only supportes midi-driver based softsynths i.e ones which intergrate with the MS midi mapper.
I use CWPA 9 with an AMT8 rack mini interface, it's drivers appear in Cakewalk. I know my sound card midi interface used to aswell before i ditched it. If she's got no external instruments then CWPA is a poor choice of software. I still use it for everything becuase you can't teach an old dog new tricks
Let me know if you want something in specific, i can try and help but im v.busy into late jan 2006, so PM me rather than forum message |
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