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#426313 08/15/17 10:53 PM
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Can anyone suggest some links to download some free banks?

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Hi casak,

Just google/bing free SFZ sounds and you will find a lot of them. Also google/bing free SF2 sounds as they can load also.

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UserTracks (and other add-ons)

Free FS Seagull Acoustic Sforzando
Free FS Fender Telecaster Both Pickups DI Sforzando
Free FS Fender Jaguar Both Pickups DI Sforzando
Free Archtop Guitar for RealTrack Jazz Electric Guitar (27) Sforzando
Free Mini Sax for RealTrack Soprano Sax (65) Sforzando
Virtual Playing Orchestra Sforzando
No Budget Band - Guitar - Bass - Organ - Synth - Orchestral Sforzando
FS Washburn Acoustic Bass Direct In Sforzando
FS Yamaha Electric Bass Direct In Sforzando
Free FS Gibson Les Paul Both Pickups DI Sforzando

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Hi MarioD,

if I click on load bank (view my attachement above) I get this screen for fxb extension file not sfz or sf2
what should I do?

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Just drag the sfz, sf2 into Sforzando, then you can access the menu to load a sf2, to add sfz to the band in a Box menu you need to edit the C:\Program Files\PG Music Inc\Band-in-a-Box Sounds\Band-in-a-Box Sounds.bank.xml .

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I did what you said. If in the menu I choose a instrument unfortunately ALL MIDI tracks of my song are performed with that instrument. :-((

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You need to load the sforzando vst into each midi track then set each midi track to the sfz instrument you want.
If you set sforzando as Default Synth all the midi tracks will play through the one sfz instrument.

If you use VSTSynthFont (1.096 / 2.096) - VST instrument instrument as the default, that will load any sf2/gig GM or load a different SF2 GM for each track giving you more control over the sound as it's hard to find an SF2 GM that is perfect.

Free sf2
http://www.synthfont.com/soundfonts.html
https://musescore.org/en/node/94941
https://musescore.org/en/node/103046

You can use Polyphone to create an SF2 GM set from the Band-in-a-Box Sounds SFZs.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=411193

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=408973

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What Pipeline said but I will amplify a just little, and make a suggestion if you only want to use soundfonts (SF2's/SFZ's), and free ones at that.

more explanation about Sforzando, it is NOT a multitimbral VSTi or device. That means, as you now know, each instance of Sforzando can only play one sound at a time no matter how many MIDI channels it receives notes from. BIAB instruments all come into Sforzando (when it is the "default" VSTi) on different MIDI channels with the default MIDI channels being, for example, channel 2 for bass; channel 3 for piano; ... channel 10 for drums.

Now if you want to use a multi-timbral soundfont player there are only a few few left out in the vast WWW wasteland. I won't waste your time and list all the "moldy-goldy" ones that are essentially impossible to find, or send you on wild goose chase to try and find them, it's pointless they aren't around anymore.

Here are TWO, both free that can be easily found. Note, they behave differential from each other

First one is one Pipeline mentioned, Coolsoft’s Virtualmidisynth - it acts like an external MIDI HW module and you would select it as a "MIDI output driver" and the UNCHECK the “use VSTi/DXi synth"” box in the "options - > MIDI/Audio Drivers setup" in BIAB.



Second one, installs and is a VSTi, just like and similar to Sforzando, called "VSTsynthfont" It uses .sf2 files (not .sfz files) but it is a 16 channel multitimbral VSTi soundfont player. Get the free one at middle of page under heading

“VSTSynthFont (1.096 / 2.096) - VST instrument”

Suggestion stick with the 32-bit only version for use at least within BIBA/RB. That suggestion has nothing to do with having JBridge or not having it. It is becasue you won’t find any GM .sf2 over 4GB (not even by half) out there so why hassle with bridging.

http://www.synthfont.com/Downloads.html

A very good GM soundfont to use, that has grown on me over last 8 months or so, recommend to me by our own John Ford, is one called: “Reality GM 31 MB soundfont.SF2”

However, in a very quick search I could only find one site but that site wanted a donation to download. I know you can find it out here somewhere without paying. But if/when you do find that .sf2 you will probably need a utility called sfark to uncompress it, see

https://musescore.org/en/node/126156

If you can't find "“Reality GM 31 MB soundfont.SF2” don't lose sleep - there are other GM soundfont files around that are good.

Good Luck
Larry

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If anyone wants the Reality soundfont, just PM me and I'll get it to you.


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yeahhhhh! Now I start to try all the things you have said and I will let you know !!

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