Personally I would pick a sound source prior to adding CC’s to it as different sources MAY act differently. If both are true GM than all should be the same, as Notes has indicated. It’s when you get into the specific not GM sound sources like Garritan J&BB, B4II and etc or when you change certain parameters such as pitch bend range that CC responses can get changed.

It’s been a long time since I’ve used SFZ but if I remember correctly it should respond to the standard CC’s ok. If you haven’t Dled the pro version SFZ+ from Cakewalk then do it. It is now free and it’s a better SF2 handling player.

One last thing, my bet is that you would be better sounding instruments through the SD2 than you will get from SF2s. SF2s have very few layers, many only have one layer thus making them non velocity sensitive while the SD2 is velocity sensitive. That is you will get different timbres of the same instrument when you hit your keys, assuming that you have a velocity sensitive keyboard. That yields a more realistic sounding instrument.

If you have problems with your controller feel free to ask for help. I noticed that the manual is on line so we could DL it if need be.

Good luck

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