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Well I stopped messing with composition for a while but I wanna get back into it. I don't have a keyboard so I just manually compose the notes in sonar, which is still pretty fun. I have a sb audigy 2 SC. Well I had an old song that I made which was cool but when I changed everything from the built-in midi notes to soundfonts, some notes (Only when there are alot of notes playing at the same time) cut out, or worse -- don't play at all. This doesn't happen when there are few notes but in the climaxes in my song where I have several notes playing at once, some notes just refuse to play, or even cut off before they are supposed to. plz help

Hey, what exactly is "VST"? When I play the soundfonts, it's directly thru Sonar itself. I add it as a soundfont (or attempt to), then change the bank.

Just what I was looking for. Thanks bro! Michael

Oh no..Sorry my bad. By "acquire" I bought it from a bud online. Anyway, sorry for all the threads, but I kept having problems one by one. I'll keep them down to one thread if I have anymore. Michael

No I havn't messed with any settings. Do you think you can do me a favor please and talk to me on AIM about the settings? Would be greatly appreciated. <3 (P.S. - The SoundFont is 191 MB.)

I'll just plainly put it out: When I try to load a soundfont that's pretty big in size (in sonar), it says "Not enough soundfont memory" I have 512 MB RAM, & an Audigy 2 ZS card. What could be wrong? That's not too bad is it? Thanks! <3

Oh, my appologies. But realize my ignorance here -- I don't know what GM / GS is.

Pardon my complete ignorance, but what exactly does it mean when searching for SoundFonts and you see something like "GM" or "GS"..etc? Thanks! <3

Perhaps they should bring it back.

Greetings brothers and sisters! I've just been a'watchin a while -- you know, lurking the forums. I started lurking when my friend showed me this site. I had no idea what it was about, but I've gained a bit of knowledge from my experience here. This is my first post, so I hope you are all as nice as you appear. And so I'm going to take a dab at requesting help. Now, don't get all frisky -- I would rather have no help at all then somebody that can't respect me. Hope I'm welcome here by the way. First off, this might be considered a newbie question to some, and I'm sorry. Albeit I'm new to the whole composing & remixing plan of attack, I don't consider this a newbie question. Aiite here goes: Recently, but before I joined OCRM, I acquired Sonar 4 Producer Edition because I heard it was relatively easy to use -- yet POWERFUL. I've found this to be exactly true. When I started out, I had no idea what a soundfont was. I made one simple MIDI and jibber-jabbered a bit with the different midi instruments. After my lurking scheme was over and I decided to stop viewing on a buddies account (thus making my own), I found out that basically, you can make your MIDI notes and make them sound a LOT better by using SoundFonts. And so, as even a mere fool would expect, I followed-up on the trend -- I made a basic sound in Sonar 4 using the piano soundfont. Nothing too tricky, but pretty good considering it's only my second project (and I've never studied any sort of musical theory). Now, when I did this, it sounded a LITTLE better, but something was missing. What's the first step when encountering a problem you might ask, staring me a fool. Well, doubting your thoughts, I have to answer "Google". And so it happened and I figured out my problem. Apparantly on Sound Blaster Audigy cards (I have an Audigy ZS 2. Now I know it's not the best card in the world, but please -- let's not get sidetracked) you have to output everything to Synth A *AND* Synth B. Well, I followed the steps on doing that. What felt absent before had now shown itself, and it sounded amazing. A LOT better. Then the problem -- -- After playing the song for a while (or hell, something, which I havn't discovered yet), my Synth A Output completely shuts off. This Synth A Output also apparantly includes all my computer's sounds, outside of Sonar. The only way to get them back is to give 'er the ol' reboot. Oh, and by the way -- when that happened, Synth B worked completely fine. To test it, I muted the Synth A outputs yet keeping the B, and I heard it. When I did just the opposite, no sound was playing. I thought to myself, "Maybe my computer is just adjusting. Or maybe it's just something random because...you know...I'm using Windows". After rebooting, I tried again -- Same problem. And Again. And Again. And Again. And so here I am now, requesting help. It would make my day if somebody could help me out. I hope I was clear enough, and so this ends my first post! <3 Me. Aww..snap. Just remembered something. This might help: Windows XP SP 1 Sonar 4 Producer Edition 512 MB RAM 2.6 GHz P4 W/ HTT Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (12/8/2005 Drivers) And also, ever since I reformatted my comp, "Multimedia Audio Controller" has always shown up in Device Manager, but with no drivers (shows the yellow alert symbol). Thought that might have something to do with it. =)