Where are plug-ins located

I cannot believe this BFd LIte is not going to work with GB3. The guy at Guitar Center promised I would have new drums sounds. Where are the GarageBand plug-ins located, anyway, I've looked in my libraries, system folder, etc. This is really stressing me out!

20" Intel C2D iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.9), 2.16ghz, 2gb ram and one pesky pixel

Posted on Jun 20, 2007 11:07 PM

25 replies

Jun 21, 2007 1:59 AM in response to dmchord

If you use a lot of soundfonts, especially the ones that come as banks with many sounds, you might want to use SoundFontSynth that replaces the DLS Device in the Generator menu.

dmchord Author

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Jun 21, 2007 2:04 AM in response to Christoph Drösser

What's a soundfont synth? Sorry...

Jun 21, 2007 2:13 AM in response to dmchord

Forget all that. Buy EZ Drummer.

Jun 21, 2007 2:24 AM in response to dmchord

The DLS Device allows you only to access one sound per soundfont. However, some soundfonts come as banks with many sounds. SoundFontSynth is a plugin that allows you to access these single sounds - you'll get an extra window where you can pick them. You can also access the Quicktime instruments, a complete set of General Midi instruments (that is used when you play midi files with the QT Player).

SoundFontSynth is shareware, with the unregistered version you can only play one octave of notes.

Look here:
http://andydrabble.users.btopenworld.com/soundfontsynth/moreinfo.html

HangTime

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Jun 21, 2007 5:04 AM in response to dmchord

the second of the two links i posted explains how to use the soundfont

dmchord Author

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Jun 21, 2007 9:30 AM in response to HangTime

Man, what a difference a good nights sleep and the realization that this takes patience and persistence makes! I've got a couple of sound fonts, and they work! More importantly, I figured out how to access the drum kits in the BFD LIte software inside GB3. Now it's up to me to master the ins and outs of the Akai pad itself to configure the pads, etc. so I can create an instrument. You guys have all been an enormous help! Thanks! One thing that's weird, is that when I have BFD Lite selected in the generator and click on the pencil I can pick the drum set, tweak the sound just like rotating a drum head, etc. It's quite feakin' cool. But...when I hit record, it automatically plays about a two measure rythym pattern and records it on top of whatever I'm pounding out. I've got to find a way to make that stop.

Jun 23, 2007 1:19 AM in response to Christoph Drösser

Entschuldigen Sie bitte die triviale Natur dieses Pfostens, aber ich möchte hallo zu meinen deutschen Freunden sagen.

Jun 23, 2007 1:44 AM in response to Jose Rosales

🙂

(And "Pfosten" is a post, but one of the kind that fences consist of. You would call a post in a forum "Beitrag". 😉

dmchord Author

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Jun 23, 2007 10:27 AM in response to Windham Hillbilly

I actually have BFDLite in the generator, and it works, but when I try to lay down a second drum track, it tells my that BFD Lite may be only used in one instance. In other words, I can't create a second drum track in a song using that generator. BFDLite becomes disabled. Any thoughts on that?

HangTime

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Jun 23, 2007 10:38 AM in response to dmchord

Any thoughts on that?

they want you to buy the full version, lite is just the taste to get you hooked.

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