Introduction

There's a music evolution taking place, even as you sit and read this. Listeners and budding musicians like you are thirsting for a new level of involvement in creating music. You want it simple, intuitive, and quick to yield results. In response, making music on the computer is truly reaching an attainable level in terms of functionality, ease-of-use, and price. Enter into the picture: SoundFont technology!

Creative and E-MU have brought you SoundFont technology as an outlet for your ideas. Change an entire bank of sounds at your whim, or perhaps just one. SoundFont banks are simple to create, intuitive to personalize, and quick to integrate into your compositions.

What follows on these pages is more than a tutorial. We're handing you the keys to the kingdom, so run wild!

Learning The Basics

Making music should be easy, right? You would expect to just sit down and go, but it doesn't always work out that way. Like anything worth doing well, you have to do a little behind-the-scenes investigating to fully understand how it all works.

This section is dedicated to presenting the inner-workings of today's music technology in an easy-to-comprehend fashion. So sit back, get ready to pop the hood and get your hands dirty as we explore the guts of MIDI, Digital Audio, and SoundFont technologies.

Introduction To MIDI