O yes the good old sound forge midi triggers...if you still wanna go that route, try checking midi imputs and outputs in soundforge, maybe in options? I'm not sure, never tried it myself, though I will get around to it sometime... However the site I gave is the sfz format site, sfz is a new sample format, like giga, soundfont, halion etc, which you use a text editor like notepda, write your samples definitions, place the samples along with the definition file in a directory, and load the definition file in to the sfz player, which ships with sonar 5 but which is also available on the sfz site, then your samples will trigger from your midi device, depending on how you defined them in the definition file. It was made for ppl like myself and many others, who are half musicians, half programmers etc lol, once you learn the concept of the tags and how to use them you will be on your way, if you need help with it, let me know and we can do a little talk on something, me you and whoever else is interested in this sfz stuff, I heard of it fro Gorden Kent, and from there I flew with it, however I'm sure he can also give you guys a hand on whatever I don't know... The advantage of sfz is that it's a text based coding standard, so we don't have to go using the mouse to edit parameters on unaccessible sampler screens, we can write tags and values to controll envelopes filters and anything else we like! If ya got more questions, fire away! HTH, DJX -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Eagle Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:33 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: AW: Re: Is a sempler useble for blind people? Hi, thanks for the information. My mind is boggling. I will try and explain what I know. I have sound forge on my computer as well as sonar. I understand in sound forge there is a way of inserting and creating regions and I have attempted to work it out to play samples via my keyboard. For example, I have a wave file loaded up called chime.wav. It is a single bell chime sound. I then select all with control A. I then go to insert region. it says name 01. I keep it at that. It has the start time, finish time, and length of my sample. I then select "Midi note on play" as I assume this is what I want. I then press ok. I then play the keyboard and nothing happens. Obviously this what I am doing is totally wrong, but I don't understand what the website you pointed me to is saying. It explains what to do but not in which program. Sorry for my ignorance. I am grateful for the help. _________________ David Eagle www.soundclick.com/davideagle ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJX" <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:17 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: AW: Re: Is a sempler useble for blind people? > Hey, go to: > http://www.rgcaudio.com/sfzformat.htm > Read up on it, and then shoot the questions over my way, I'm we'll be able > to help you. It's really a great sampler/sampling format, I use it all > the > time! > > HTH, DJX > > -----Original Message----- > From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On > Behalf Of David Eagle > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:09 AM > To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: AW: Re: Is a sempler useble for blind people? > > Hi! I am very keen to develop music using samplers. So far I have had to > use > > my bad quality mono sampler on my keyboard. Can you explain how to get my > wave files in to the SFZ format. 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