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Locate and download a Soundfont that has GM compatibility and at least one drumkit sound bank.

To change the Soundfont, follow these steps: If you would like to use a different Soundfont in Rhythm Lab, you can. This is a large soundfont developed by Frank Wen. Rhythm Lab includes a default Soundfont in the app bundle: FluidR3_GM. There are a number of software tools available for creating your own SoundFont, and numerous SoundFonts, both free and commercial, available on the internet.

The format was created by Creative Labs to work with their computer sound cards. A SoundFont is a file that contains sound samples (waveforms) and information for how the samples will be played. PG Music in their Band-In-A-Box uses Forte DXi which works well, but it's DirectX, not a VST.Rhythm Lab uses a SoundFont to provide its sounds. All in all, no Live plugin seems to handle General MIDI too well, apparently. sf files are, hello "Live has stopped working" error. In Kontakt's file window I navigated to my Soundfonts folder. I started anew, and tried to replace the missing Bandstand with Kontakt. Live will shut down after this message box is closed." So I threw Sampler away too. Dragged a 144MB General MIDI Soundfont into Sampler.

After replacing the missing Bandstand plugin with Cakewalk SFZ+ (and redoing all the 16 track routings in a Live Set), loading any General MIDI soundfont, even just a measly 8MB one produced a "not enough memory" SFZ+ error. So I uninstalled Bandstand, which ended Live's crashes right away. Live's manual says exactly zilch about compatibility mode. If I just launched the Bandstand Application by itself, no problem, it worked. Starting with a totally empty Live Set, and dropping Bandstand on an empty track also produced a crash. Next day, trying to open any of the 50+ Live Sets I created with Bandstand crashed Live. Live complained something at first and said that it will run the Bandstand plugin in "Compatibility Mode". I tried Bandstand on Windows 7 and Live 8. It's not an alternative but a precursor to calling up the fancy sounds.

mid file into a single Live track with Bandstand on, and all sequence tracks snap to the right General MIDI sound, there is no "Was 'Track 6' meant to be piano or laser zap?" head scratching. The point of having a General MIDI plugin like Bandstand (if it only worked in Live) is that unlike the pedestrian method of manual timbre assignments, one can route 16 tracks of a.