SB Live External Problems finding & using a good acoustic Piano soundf

I recently acquired a 24-bit SB Li've! external soundcard which I use with my laptop computer and midi keyboard for playing piano-type music. I'm a newbie, so bear with me here. I'm trying to find a decent, full, rich-sounding, sampled acoustic grand piano soundfont. The free one's I've downloaded from the Internet are apparently too big because I get error messages like "not enough memory" and something about "cache size." The electric piano soundfonts I purchased and used from Sonic Implants work very well. I really like them. So, here's the question: Where can I get a good, rich acoustic piano soundfont that will work with my SB Li've! external soundcard? What should I do? Thank you. --sixtoeightfeet

sixtoeightfeet wrote:
I recently acquired a 24-bit SB Li've! external soundcard which I use with my laptop computer and midi keyboard for playing piano-type music. I'm a newbie, so bear with me here. I'm trying to find a decent, full, rich-sounding, sampled acoustic grand piano soundfont. The free one's I've downloaded from the Internet are apparently too big because I get error messages like "not enough memory" and something about "cache size." The electric piano soundfonts I purchased and used from Sonic Implants work very well. I really like them. So, here's the question: Where can I get a good, rich acoustic piano soundfont that will work with my SB Li've! external soundcard? What should I do? Thank you. --sixtoeightfeet
Can you/You can set the cache as "dynamic"? You get the settings panel opened by pressing the MIDI Devices -button.
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Does it help.
jutapa
P.S. If you want, I can post some piano links later to this thread.Message Edited by jutapa on 0-22-2006 03:20 AM

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