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The Art of SoundFont Bank Creation Introduction Are you one of the many desktop musicians who rely only on the standard General MIDI instruments supplied with your Sound Blaster Live! or Sound Blaster Audigy series audio card, or those SoundFont banks made by others? Do you find these instruments a little too familiar as everyone uses them? Would you like to spend a little time making some more "personal" instruments yourself? If your answer is yes, you are probably wondering how you can make these customized instruments, or perhaps you do not even know you can actually make them yourself? Well, you can! In these next few lessons, I will reveal the secrets of Vienna SoundFont Studio and help you along with your first attempt at sound designing. Vienna SoundFont Studio can be rather confusing at first glance, but you'll quickly learn how powerful and easy to use the program actually is. Even if you are an experienced user of Vienna SoundFont Studio, I believe you will still learn something new. This tutorial will give you a step-by-step guide on how to create your own SoundFont file, also know as an SF2 file. Note: this is not an attempt to teach you everything there is to know about Vienna SoundFont Studio. What we hope to do here is to show you how you can effectively create your own SoundFont file in the shortest possible time, while providing you with a better understanding of the essential basics. To follow the examples given in the articles, all you need is a PC equipped with a Sound Blaster Live! or Sound Blaster Audigy series audio card and at least 128 MB of system memory, lots of patience, and the willpower to learn. The examples in these lessons revolve around a "SawPad" synth sample (SawPad.wav [125kb]) and three percussion samples (Snare.wav [21.7kb], Kick.wav [16.6kb], Hihat.wav [24.2 kb]) that you can download here for use with the examples. It is recommended that you use these samples as it will make the examples clearer and easier to understand. Good luck! 
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