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Yes, MIDI SYNTH A and B are both listed separately, but MIDI SYNTH only
offers me the GM font specified in the CREATIVE LAUNCHER.  That's only 1
font (with many patches, granted, but GM collections suck, I prefer using
individual banks as patches - in other words, Soundfonts).

Technically, shouldn't I be able to have 2 separate synths of soundfonts,
with the possibility of choosing 32 different fonts?  Not only does MIDI
SYNTH A and B prevent you from changing patches/fonts, it goes so far as to
force you to use the SAME for BOTH (theGM font used as a default in your
CREATIVE LAUNCHER settings). Only the patches can be changed, not the bank.

This is too silly to be real.  That's why I'm assuming there's more than
meets the eye here.

Cakewalk lists the following devices :

SBLIVE MIDI SYNTH A
SBLIVE MIDI SYNTH B
SOUNDFONT DEVICE
etc.. (externals)

SBLIVE MIDI SYNTH (A or B) = 1 GM DEFAULT FONT FOR ALL 32 COMBINED CHANNELS

SOUNDFONT DEVICE = Choice of ANY FONT for EACH of the 16 channels available.

Hence, the original question.  Is there a way for me to use more than 16
channels of soundfonts at one time?

Or, more appropriately...  is there a way for me to make the MIDI SYNTH
allow me to use fonts OTHER than the default specified in the Creative
Launcher that is forced on both MIDI SYNTH A and B?


Tom Lougee <97319361@brookes.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:383EFFCB.BDCDB8F0@brookes.ac.uk...
> Hmm - you do realise that the SBLive hardware synth has 32 channels by
> using two 16-channel ports for the same synth? They are referred to as
> SBLive MIDI Synth A and B in the MIDI control panel. Cakewalk itself
> should list these in the MIDI Devices setup.
>
> jy99@videotron.ca wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to exceed 16 channels with the SBlive?
> >
> > I use Cakewalk, and we can use 16 channels per port, with no limits on
the
> > number of ports.  However, there's to way to assign soundfonts to more
than
> > 1 port that I know of, so I'm limited to 16 channels of soundfonts.
> >
> > Given that everything is handled internally (no outside modules used) I
find
> > it pretty silly that even the most powerful computer out there won't let
me
> > use more than 16 channels of soundfonts in one song.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to get around this, if there even is a way to?