FL 8: Speeding up rendering when using Soundfont Player

[-MZ-]

Hi, my orchestral piece I just made has 22 soundfont tracks, using the Fruity Soundfont Player. Whenever I render, it takes upwards of 10 minutes to render, while it would only take about 2 minutes if VSTs or something else was used. I've tried alternative soundfont players (SFP and SFZ) but they either make FL 8 crash or the song just becomes nothing but loud static when you hit Play (SFZ is the one that does this).

Is there another option, or should I avoid using soundfonts with FL Studio?

[Nutritious]

This is a known issue with FL. The short of it is, the company that created the soundfont player plugin went under and disappeared. Basically, Image-Line can't do anything to fix it, so that's as good as it's gonna get.

[zircon]

Try loading the soundfonts in directwave player.

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

I've been using Take1 for soundfonts because of the aforementioned SFZ problems.

[-MZ-]

Thanks guys. I took a look at Take1 and it seems to fit my needs. I might buy the full version of DirectWave later on if I see that there's a lot more use for it.