How to use SoundFonts with Cubase?

[Kruai]

Never mind, I'll look it up. Open for lock/delete.

[Yoozer]

Uh, no offense intended, but these kinds of things can be solved in utterly basic ways - mostly by punching the words you need into Google, such as "soundfont plugin".

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/769.html

Next time, please make the effort to search the forum or Google or keep all your questions in a single thread (which gives it more educational value since it documents your learning process). Much better than going all helpdesk-machine-gun style.

A soundfont is nothing more than a whole bunch of samples plus the logic behind them in a single file. This logic tells the range of the sample over the keyboard (for instance, drums only span a single key, while a synth sound may span several keys), and the velocity range (hit the key harder than a certain treshold, and you'll hear a different sound).

Higher quality - not necessarily. Free, generally yes. Easier: yes, but also more limited.

Samples and VSTs have nothing to do with eachother; the word VST just means that the piece of software requires a host (FL Studio, Cubase, etc.) to work in. A VST may employ several sound-generating techniques - of which samples are just one particular kind. Most free VSTs use physical modeling (sampling well and programming effectively is somewhat of a dark art).

[Kruai]

Oh, sorry...

This can be locked/deleted then. I'll be more logical next time. Thanks for the help anyway though!