sf2 file quickly, so that you can triage them into a few categories (and thus into named folders inside the '/Banks' folder.): What IS needed, to save lots of time and finger-wear, is a way of running through the sounds in a.
In this case, there's no need to commission a TV programme to find some suitable candidates. sf2 using a search engine on the Interweb is going to produce lots of results, which then leads to the question of 'auditioning'. My personal favourite effects plug-in for the DLSMusicDevice is the 'Auto-Filter', where subtle use can remove some of the 'General MIDI' giveaway sound footprint! Ī search for. You are advised to lower this setting! If you add any in-line effects in the track then having reverb in the source audio sounds strange anyway - so use a reverb plug-in at the end of the processing chain. The 'Reverb Volume' is highlighted because the default is to smother the audio in lots of reverb. In fact, for this simple example, you do not need to see the inputs and outputs at all. Unfortunately, Live seems to always send MIDI information to the DLS plug-in on MIDI channel 1, and there is no control to change this in the I-O panel. What is interesting is that this MIDI Track is behaving exactly as it should - receiving MIDI inputs and converting them into audio outputs. Notice here that I've made the Inputs and Outputs visible by clicking on the I-O circle on the far right of the mixer, just to the right of the master volume sliders. To get the control window to appear, you just click on the 'Spanner' icon in the generic X-Y controller box that appears in the track detail view at the bottom of the screen. Note that if you create a MIDI Clip then you can use the 'Program Change' control to select the sound that the DLSMusicDevice produces. So if you only need a single channel of basic General MIDI instrument sounds, then this may be all that you need. You can create a MIDI Clip containing a few note events to test out the DLSMusicDevice, or you could use a keyboard (or the virtual keyboard on a laptop) - the highlighted red 'Record' button at the bottom of the track-strip enables this.Ībleton always uses MIDI channel 1 by default inside a track, so this will use the first one of the 16 available MIDI channels in the DLSMusicDevice plug-in, and so you can only use it for instrumental voices - there is no way to change the MIDI channel that is used when you use this way of accessing the DLSMusicDevice. Here is a MIDI Track with the DLSMusicDevice plug-in dropped into it.