
You will notice that they are incremented in steps of 128. Clicking on the 0 brings up arrows enabling you to move through the Bank numbers.
Look at the Bank column: at this stage all the instruments will be Bank 0. Make sure Equipment (the far right column - you may have to use the slider at the bottom of the page to see it!) says " A: (or B: if appropriate) SB Live! MIDI Synth". Go to the Play/Flexi-time/ Sounds dialog (or just type I). You could use B:SB Live! MIDI Synth, if you prefer, or even have both available to use. In Play/Flexi-time/ Equipment make sure you have A:SB Live! MIDI Synth enabled ( Yes in Use column). Open the file you want, or start a new file. There is no need to multiply the bank number or add 1 to the program number as in previous versions of Sibelius. In the right-hand set of controls, enter the bank number (from Configure Instrument) in the Bank High box, and enter the program number into the Program box. Go to Play > Playback and Input Devices ( Play > Devices in Sibelius 3 & 2) and ensure that A: SB Live! Synth and/or B: SB Live! Synth are allowed to be used for playback (set the Use column to Yes for either or both of them). The numbers in this window are program numbers, which Sibelius can use (see below.) Click on the Bank you want, and then on Select Instrument.
Click on Configure Instrument and in the new window click on Select Bank. Having found the Soundfont you want, click on it, then click on Select, and the Soundfont is loaded. #SYNTHESIA SOUNDFONT INSTALL#
A good idea is to download your Soundfonts (from the Internet or CD, or wherever) into a folder on your hard drive and install them from there.
Click on Load, and locate the Soundfont you want to install. Click on the Bank into which you want to load your Soundfont. Go to Soundfont in Audio HQ (accessed from its icon on the taskbar or from Start/ Programs/ Creative/ SoundBlaster Live!/ Audio HQ), and click on Configure Bank. The following applies to Soundblaster Live! and Audigy cards, but other Soundblaster cards can also load Soundfonts in a similar way using the Control Panel or Control Program located in the Sound Blaster program group in your Start menu:
You can load several at the same time, so if you have, say, a favourite flute sound, you can use it with your favourite piano sound, which may be from an entirely different source. If you have a Soundblaster soundcard you can easily load soundfonts and use them in Sibelius. WAV files (recordings of actual instruments) which can replace default or built in MIDI sounds to give you a wider range of sounds and vastly improved sound quality.