Audigy 2 ZS SoundFont Banks/Softw

Can anyone tell me what SoundFont software and banks come with the Audigy 2 ZS, Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, and Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro? What about the Audigy 4 Pro?Thanks,Serge

They come with 2, 4, or 8MB GM soundfont banks, none of which are all that great. There are plenty of free larger SF banks available on the Internet.
They all come with Creative's Soundfont Bank Manager. The Vienna Soundfont Studio Version 2.3 (for creating SF banks) is a separate download from Creative's site.

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Hi Everyone,
I want to increase the cache in my soundfont bank manager, I have done the normal things but I still can't load more than 2mb of cache, I have gig of memory in my system, I have pushed the slider up to 600mb in the cache adjust area but if I try to load more that the 2mb of soundfont files the manager refuses to load up.........any suggestions anyone?
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USB Cable? The parts list in the box only indicates the External Access Box, the Card, the power converter, a digital CD connector, the AD_LINK cable and the Game connector. No USB cable.
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= I have been a LONGtime Creative Labs product user, back to the days of the SB Pro and continuing through SB Li've, and now (with my newer Vista x64 system) I just purchased a SB0570 Audigy SE card because it claimed Vista compatibility. I am a musician and desire to be able to use different SoundFonts.
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Soundfont Bank Manager and Windows Vista/Seven (64 bits)

Hi everyone !
Well I own a SB Audigy SE, running on Windows 7/Vista in 64 bits architecture. The fact is, when I try to launch the SF Bank Manager, I do have an error message : "SoundFont bank manager initialization failure".
I tried to run it in various compatibility modes (XP, Vista, etc ), nothing works. The SB audigy SE is SoundFont .x and 2.x compatible, so I don't understand why it does not work.
Does a version of the SF Bank Manager exist for 64 bits versions of Vista/Seven
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Going on what Daniel has posted here,
http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?==4440
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Hey everybody how you doin?
ok here is my problem i installed all the latest updates for SBAudigy 2 and software.
But now i am using that Soundfont Bank Manager and when i play with my MICE there are no problems. but when i play with my Keyboard on the notes the sound are hicking up and some wont' play. I had before this a soundblaster li've 5. and there the Creative Keyboard worked great (i reinstalled my PC so there are no traces left of the old drivers) So can someone pleace help me and if you don't understand what i typed ill try then to explain it better.
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Hi!
I've had those same drivers installed since I started hanging around on here.
And yes, my card was OEM version. It came in a little sealed plastic wrap and with one CD-R that had 'Audigy 2' written on it. That CD had NO software on it at all. Just a driver (SB Audigy) which I had to update to the one you mentioned in the above post anyway.
What I'm interested in is the software, specifically Audio HQ so that I may use the SPDIF passthroug option! I'm even willing to buy the CD if it's available.
Also, I've tried to get some of the software programs from this site but they seem to be just updates, not the actual full version programs.
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Need help with SoundFont Bank Mana

If anyone can help. I have a audigy 2 zs and i'm trying to remove all the soundfont banks from both Soundfont Devices (A and B) and move the soundfont cache slider to 0.0mb, to save RAM since i don't use the soundfont device, but when i restart the computer, the soundfont manager automaticaly loads back the 2mb sf2. how can i overcome this?

IIRC, there is a sort of guide available if you press the ? button found in SoundFont Bank Manager window.
Start by adjusting the amount of Cache (this needs to be sized by the soundfonts you goin' to load into manager). You get this dialog opened by pressing the MIDI Devices button found in SFB Manager.
If you just want to add those banks into manager (i.e. not swap w/ original presets) then,
- press the "Bank" (blue) button --> your manager dialog opens.
- select free (Empty) Bank from list (you'll probably see the basic CT bank there listed in st bank) then click the bank Stack window acti've ... and press Load -> find your accordion bank and load it...
- loop this procedure as many times as you need (add another into empty bank) or be able to.
If you want to replace some original preset from default bank w/ these new ones then you select the Preset (blue) button and find the preset from list you want to change... (delete the old if you don't need it anymore) load the new preset ...
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Working SoundFont Bank Mana

Been lurking here a while, but didn't want to register or post 'till I had something to say hello with.
Have a load of SoundBlaster installation CD's here that I've gathered from computers I've built over the years- been playing with them trying to get stuff working, found this gem that didn't need any modification. To my knowledge no one has posted a working SoundFont Bank Manager, and the default 2MB bank the drivers use in Vista pains me.
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SoundFont Bank Manager, and the not so great Creative Default 2/4/8MB SoundFonts.
I'm working on a few other things, I won't say anything in case I get peoples hopes up then realise it's impossible.
I'd also like to voice my frustration at Creative, I understand that there were a lot of architectural changes, I understand that they were rather last minute, but what I don't understand is how home users are finding ways to enable things like DTS decoding from optical (thanks Ricky55 by the way), making software work, yet from you we receive nothing for months, and when we do it's not that great and crippled.
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davemilleruk wrote:
Hi, has anyone found that after loading soundfonts that the soundfont bank manager resets the default 4MB GM set and a 2 MB cache memory? Not immediately but usually when you least need it! Maybe after a few days or weeks even. Does anyone know what criteria could cause it's Cheers,Dave.
Hmm..maybe you have some other applications that's reseting the value.....

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I'm trying to find an installation file for the Soundfont Bank Manager, but I'm not finding it anywhere. Does anybody know where I can get it's The only thing on my computer is the Creative Audio Console and I don't have access to my original CDs.
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Good-day. I'm hoping some one can help me with a some-what Iratating problem.
No matter what sequencing program that I use, I have found it impossible to arrange/compose without the use of the best multi-velocity sample format available today; Soundfonts.
Not too long ago, only very top-end sequencing programs could load and save SF2's along with your 'project' or 'arrangment'. Today -fortunately- recent versions of most programs have been improved to include specifically dedicated Soundfont compatibility.
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Message Edited by PowerChair on 0-23-2005 02:43 AM

PowerChair,
I am using Cakewalk SONAR 4, and since the Cakewalk version that came with my old SB Awe 64 Gold, it wasn?t unable to manage the bank 0.
I suspect this have to do with a commitment made by the drivers programmers (both CL and kX drivers doesn?t let you leave the bank 0 empty -at least the kX driver i tested more than a year ago, but?I am about to test the later version). This ensures there is allways a sample to play when you send a note, even if you send it to an empty bank and/or patch. If you do so, you?ll hear the samples from the same patch in the first lower non empty bank, defaulting to the one at bank 0. I believe that by having allways something loaded at bank 0, the programmers avoided the processing overload of having to check if there is a sample to be played every time the driver receive a note, or risking addressing memory with garbage, wich, treated as a sample, could damage your audio devices (btw, I am a programmer :-).
It seems that Cakewalk programmers (I don?t know of other software) decided to honor this commitment by forbiding you to attach or deattach a SF into bank 0 (not even taking the risk of leting you load a corrupted SF file there wich could lead the the "memory garbage problem", or could leave the driver in a unstable state).
The most serious problem (for me) this approach comes from the SF having instruments defined both at bank 0 and bank 27 (i.e., GM/GS sets). When you load a SF in memory, then defined banks are offseted from the bank you choose to load it. As example, if the SF have instruments at bank 0, , and 4, and you load it into bank 0, then you?ll find the instruments in the banks 0, , and 4. So, when you load a SF at bank , you cannot reach the instruments that were defined into the bank 27 because it's offseted to 28 (an invalid bank number). As a result, the only way I have to use those instruments is by loading the SF at bank 0 with the Bank Manager, or editting the SF file to change the instruments into a lower bank.
The other problem I have with SONAR is that it cannot manage the B device banks. You can choose the B device and reach the instruments, but you have to load them with the Bank Manager (btw, the kX device version I tested wasn?t able to reach the B device either, altough it seems the current version can).
If someone knows how to deal with these problems, please drop a tip.
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