How to load Sound Fonts in the STS-4000 correctly? (by Lotuz
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Today I received the GMEDIA "On The Rhodes" CD with a multi-sampled Sound Font. I tried to load it into my STS-4000, but it doesn't sound right. It sounds like a pad (very slow attack and incredibely long release). Totally unusable. But when I load it into the Bismark Sound Font player (VSTi demo) it sounds fine. Either I must be doing something wrong or there's something wrong with the STS-4000. Who can help me out here?
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AudioIrony
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Subject: Re: How to load Sound Fonts in the STS-4000 correctly?
I had EXACTLY the same experience. After a LOT of reinstalling and F@#¢ing around, I finally got it to work, but I have no idea what I did, sorry.
My symptoms were identical, after loading a soundfont into the Program Pool and then transfering it to the main program section, it just didn't play correctly. I tried holding down the control key as it says in the manual that this will force STS4000 to keep the original play paremeters of the sample program.... it didn't work. Then none of my AKAI samples would play correctly either. A Grand Piano played back like a broken plastic toy.... FRUSTRATING....
I reinstalled Pulsar Software, back to V2.01, reinstalled STS4000...and stayed away from soundfonts for a while ... It's all working now.... I can use soundfonts again ...but I have been exporting them out as AKAI samples.
Sorry this isn't much help.... I can't really put my finger on what I did to make it work...eventualy.
All the best.
BTW.. I'm running Pulsar on a Mac... R U?..might be significant (?)
I had EXACTLY the same experience. After a LOT of reinstalling and F@#¢ing around, I finally got it to work, but I have no idea what I did, sorry.
My symptoms were identical, after loading a soundfont into the Program Pool and then transfering it to the main program section, it just didn't play correctly. I tried holding down the control key as it says in the manual that this will force STS4000 to keep the original play paremeters of the sample program.... it didn't work. Then none of my AKAI samples would play correctly either. A Grand Piano played back like a broken plastic toy.... FRUSTRATING....
I reinstalled Pulsar Software, back to V2.01, reinstalled STS4000...and stayed away from soundfonts for a while ... It's all working now.... I can use soundfonts again ...but I have been exporting them out as AKAI samples.
Sorry this isn't much help.... I can't really put my finger on what I did to make it work...eventualy.
All the best.
BTW.. I'm running Pulsar on a Mac... R U?..might be significant (?)
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Guest
Subject: Re: How to load Sound Fonts in the STS-4000 correctly?
Thanks for your reply. Someone else told me the same thing, so it must be a problem of the STS-4000. >:(
Perhaps I should try to convert the SF2 into Akai or Pulsar format first and then load it into the STS-4000. CDxtract is a program that can do that.
Thanks for your reply. Someone else told me the same thing, so it must be a problem of the STS-4000. >:(
Perhaps I should try to convert the SF2 into Akai or Pulsar format first and then load it into the STS-4000. CDxtract is a program that can do that.
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Guest
Subject: Fix...
Rioght the quick and ez way around this (tho far from perfect) take a ready made key group (something keyboardy off the pulsar sample cd will prob do the trick) load it up save it as 'Rhodes' or something. now delete out all the keygroups.
load up the rhodes soundfont - go into keygroups and highlight the top keygoup, scan down to the bottom key group press shift and click on that. Now just cut the select keygroups out and paste em in the empty prgram you created earlier. Save that.
Dunno how well it'll work with the rhodes cos of multisampling etc but it works a treat on drum kit keygroups.
Altho it only takes a few seconds it is a pain - mebbe creamware may fix this in the new version?
Rioght the quick and ez way around this (tho far from perfect) take a ready made key group (something keyboardy off the pulsar sample cd will prob do the trick) load it up save it as 'Rhodes' or something. now delete out all the keygroups.
load up the rhodes soundfont - go into keygroups and highlight the top keygoup, scan down to the bottom key group press shift and click on that. Now just cut the select keygroups out and paste em in the empty prgram you created earlier. Save that.
Dunno how well it'll work with the rhodes cos of multisampling etc but it works a treat on drum kit keygroups.
Altho it only takes a few seconds it is a pain - mebbe creamware may fix this in the new version?