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Welcome to the Tutorial Zone! We have created a few tutorials to help answer your questions and give you some guidelines in setting up and using our products. We hope you find them useful and encourage you to contact us if you have any further questions or ideas for future tutorials.
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How to Set-up and Play Soundfonts with Creative Soundcards.
Most Creative soundcards (SBLive!, Audigy, etc.) and E-mu X series cards can load and run Soundfonts natively. This tutorial explains the basics of how to use the Creative Soundfont Manager Software to set up and load Soundfonts for use with other software applications.
How to use Soundfonts with Creative Soundcards and Cakewalk SONAR.
Creative Soundcards can load and run Soundfonts directly in hardware. This tutorial explains how to set up your hardware, and access it in Cakewalk's popular SONAR music software.
How to Play Soundfonts in a Sequencer using sfz.
On Windows systems, the free sfz VST plug-in allows Soundfonts to run directly within the host application. In this tutorial, we run through the basics of how to use sfz to load and play Soundfonts, using Cakewalk SONAR as an example.
How to Play Soundfonts in a Sequencer using Vsampler.
Vsampler is an inexpensive yet powerful Software Sampler that runs as either a stand-alone sample player, or as a plug-in within your sequencer. This tutorial explains how to set up and use Vsampler3 as a "SoftSynth" within Sonar, and use it to play sample libraries in popular formats such as Soundfont, GigaStudio, AKAI, HALion, and many others.
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