Cannot seem to access the sforzando SFZ Synth as described in posting #424497 by Callie - PG Music.
I use a WIN 10 laptop with BB 2017 build 467, with a Roland SD-50 as sound-card. The driver type I use is Asio. I use the BB harddrive for the program and all my songs.
Callie states: This synth is installed with Band-in-a-Box, and is ready to play and does not require configuration.
However, alas it does not (yet) seem to work for me, as I e.g. cannot find the Select Hi-Q MIDI synth Patch.
After reading your post, I found myself wondering the following...
When you installed BIAB, did you install Sforzando?
Is Sforzando available in BIAB's lists of VST instruments?
Have you tried right-clicking on the BIAB start-up shortcut and then selecting "Run as administrator"? That might make a difference (I know that it does on my system).
I haven't run the install in a while, but as I remember it, the main program for Sforzando will install into your Programs Files folder, but you can specify your standard VST location during the installation process, as well as where you want to install any music libraries (if I remember correctly). The program itself doesn't take up a lot of space; it's your sound files that take up the space.
On my machine, I install the main app to the "C:\Program Files" folder; my VST's go to my "D:\AppsData\VST\32-bit" (and "D:\AppsData\VST\64-bit") and my sound files go to "E:\Audio\Sounds\Sforzando". you get lots of control about where things go. Just pay attention to the settings when you do the install.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
Have downloaded the Sforzando VST flies and they were installed on my BB hard drive under Program Files → PG Music Inc → BiaB sounds → programs → various instruments → etc.
I have checked everything against the “About Plogue Sforzando” file and everything seems OK.
I use the Hi-Q 0401 flute to play the melody of the jazz ballad «I Remember Clifford», and though the flute sounds quite realistic, it is somewhat out of tune.
This sound especially bad when I add the Crooner Big Band as a background.
1) Is there something I can do about this? I have given BiaB a high priority as a program!
2) Are there other realistic sounding sforzando plugins like e.g. trumpet, trombone and saxophones, that I can download somewhere?
Thanks again for all the help I have received from you!!!!
I don't think the prob's Sforzando - I've just hit this for the first time. I think the problem's how they tune the darned soundfonts in the first place!
OK, admission time, I'm not the world's greatest computer guy so I'm talking from personal experience, not Deep Knowledge here. As soundfonts all come from different sources, I think their definition of 'equal temperament' differs just a little. Just enough to mix a little salt with the sugar. What's needed is SOMETHING in Sforzando to let you change the tuning up or down in microtone steps until you've matched all the soundfonts up on one chord. Once you've got them all singing from the same hymnsheet, they're fine!
At least that worked for me - I deconstructed some using Audacity (played them in my DAW, output the sound as a .WAV, imported the .WAV into Audacity, microtuned them and exported the result as a .wav, dropped it onto Sforzando and got a new soundfont.) Once they were all tuned TOGETHER, they sounded fine It's the tiny bits of sourness adding up that's the problem, I feel.
Chris again - just had another thought. I've got a TON of soundfonts I've collated over time - most of which I've had so long I've clean forgotten where I found them.
If it's OK, I'll put them up on a file-sharing site so anyone can use them. As they were free in the first place, it wouldn't be dodgy to put them up as a BEEG free download (about 8 gigs worth) would it?
I'll wait till someone tells me I have permission to, before I do.
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