Thanks Musocity.

I agree with you on the SF making. This was more of a sideline curiosity question.

I have been using SF's since the early days and there are some very nice ones available that are superior to Coyote. I used to use the Yamaha XG soundcard and the Yamaha XG Daughter Board card back in the days of Windows XP but since they dropped the development of 64bit drivers, they went bye bye.

The daughter board was used on the old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard and they too dropped development and never came out with a 64bit driver. I keep checking in vain still to this day hoping some one reverse engineered the 32bit driver's and came out with a 64bit version but that has not happened. That's why I started using soundfonts along with Coolsoft MidiSynth. That program can be used with both TablEdit and BIAB at the same time and I can sample various SF's in realtime on the fly.

I have probably sampled 50+ SF's over time trying to find the one that most duplicate the sound of a 5-string banjo, which is my instrument. The only one I have found so far is 8mbgm_enhanced18.sf2 which you can find on Google. Just compared that with Coyote in BIAB and the 8mbgm_enhanced18 still sound more like the instrument that I play. All the other banks sound great but it just seems that it is harder to duplicate the midi sound of a banjo using a soundfont then any other instrument.

I would love to figure out how to sample record my instrument and convert the WAV file into a soundfont but that is probably beyond my humble technical knowledge.

jcland

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