Soundfonts & Music Studio 2014

niwdoog2011 wrote on 4/22/2014, 12:04 PM

Hello, I've recently purchased Music Studio 2014, being familiar with Samplitude over a decade ago. My question is: I have a fairly substantial collection of Soundfonts which I would like to use, first off can Soundfonts be used with this studio and if so, which folder should I copy them to? Magix seems to have installed folders in quite a few places. Thanks!

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browj2 wrote on 4/22/2014, 1:24 PM

Hi,

I don't think that you can use Soundfonts directly, but there may be a way to do so. See the Samplitude forum and the links below:

http://support2.magix.net/boards/samplitude//index.php?showtopic=22285&hl=soundfont

http://support2.magix.net/boards/samplitude//index.php?showtopic=24602&hl=soundfont

I presume that you purchased Samplitude Music Studio 2014? They have lighter products simply called Music Studio and Music Studio 2, which all share the same engine, I believe, but have less features that the Samplitude version.

With SMS2014, there should be 32 and 64-bit versions. Both are installed in the same folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MAGIX\Samplitude Music Studio 2014

VST plugins are installed in the following two places, the first is for 32-bit, the second for 64-bit:

C:\Program Files (x86)\VSTPlugins\MAGIX

C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins\MAGIX

Program data is installed in:

C:\ProgramData\MAGIX\Samplitude Music Studio 2014

Finally, Soundpools, synth instruments and links to manuals are installed in:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX

Under this, I install all Soundpools under:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX\Common\Soundpools

using the folder names that came with the soundpools, such as "+1.000 Sounds" and "Best of Soundpool Collection Vol. 1" etc. That way when you link the search for soundpools in SMS to the folder, it finds them all, including any new ones.

There is also the MxSyth folder:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX\Common\MxSynth

Everything in its place.

browj2 wrote on 4/22/2014, 1:33 PM

For completeness on locations of files setup by Samplitude Music Studio 2014, there is also a folder under My Documents for storing your work:

C:\Users\John\Documents\MAGIX\Samplitude Music Studio 2014

See the settings in SMS for folder locations. You can change these locations if you wish.

tomotello wrote on 7/8/2014, 5:01 AM

A typical answer could be, use either a SF2 VSTi Soundfont player as the free VSTSynthFont here http://www.synthfont.com/Downloads.html or use a standalone Soundfont Player and connect Samplitude Music Studio to it via virtual MIDI driver, such as loopbe http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe30.html . And last but not least in case you are running Samplitude Music Studio on a Mac (in Parallels Desktop) you could also configure network midi on the mac host and inside parallels desktop connect via rtpMIDI http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html .

However, there is a much simpler way by doing the soundfont replacement on the driver level in Windows with VirtualMIDISynth http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth . This approach has the advantage that you can at the same time replace the default Windows 'Microsoft GS Wavetabel Synth' by any available Soundfont of your choice or even direct multiple soundfonts in parallel. Once configured you will see than in Samplitude Music Studio in Options->System->MIDI Output 'Coolsoft VirtualMIDISynth' configured and are ready to use any soundfont within Samplitude Music Studio without touching any configuration in SMS itself.

Thomas

PS: Let me know if you have any issues configuring such a setup. I've planned anyway to make a series of tutorials how to scale up from standard SF2 soundfont user up to a full professional setup with Samplitude Suite and Independence Pro sampler always using GM/GS/XG based MIDIs as starting point for arrangements, see my posts here http://support2.magix.net/boards/samplitude//index.php?showtopic=30377 and here http://support2.magix.net/boards/samplitude//index.php?showtopic=30381