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Since tones of 'Tabla' and other Indian Rhythm instruments are not
assigned as midi tone, I have used 'soundfonts' to hear Indian
Rhythm Instruments in our midi files.
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Down load soundfonts
Note: If you can not hear any sound follow the instructions below:
Instructions for Cakewalk midi software:
Change the MIDI Out port
to a sound card that supports SoundFonts, like A: SB Live! MIDI Synth
Tools/SoundFonts
This command lets you import SoundFont banks.
SoundFont files contain data for patches.
To use SoundFonts, you must have a Creative Labs AWE 32 or AWE 64 sound card and
have the SoundFont Management System installed.
When Cakewalk opens a WRK or MID file, it looks for a SF2 file in the same
folder with the same base name. If one exists, Cakewalk uses it. Use the
Locations button to specify folders where Cakewalk should look. Use the Attach
button in the SoundFont Banks dialog box to override this behavior and specify a
different SoundFont file to use with the song.
Technical information:
Midi software like "Anvil
Studio" (free download) also supports Soundfonts.
Anvil Studio has special support for sound cards like SoundBlaster Live!
that support SoundFonts. These cards can dynamically load different set of
instrument sounds from files with the file extention .SF2. To load a new set of
instrument sounds:
 | Select Synthesizers from the View menu.
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| Change the MIDI Out port to a sound card that supports SoundFonts, like A:
SB Live! MIDI Synth
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| Press the Load Patch Library button
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| Change the Files of Type field to SoundFont Files
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| Select the .SF2 file you want to load
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| Press the Open button
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| Select Mixer from the View menu
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| Click the Device column of any Instrument or Rhythm track
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| In the resulting window, set the Synthesizer field to your SoundFont sound
card
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| Set the Bank field to any value
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| Click on the instrument that you want to assign to that track
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