Lost Entire DLS SoundFonts Bank After Snow Leopard Upgrade

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Lost Entire DLS SoundFonts Bank After Snow Leopard Upgrade

Hey guys. I finally was able to get MIDI happening again with my Tascam Fireone MIDI/Audio interface and hooked up my Casio Privia keyboard to GarageBand. However, when I added a new software instruments track, I went to Instrument Generator, DLS Music Device, Manual, Sound Bank is grayed out and I can't open any of my custom SoundFonts after Snow Leopard upgrade. I then checked Library/Audio/Banks and there is nothing there, totally empty folder.

How is that possible? It seems everything else is working fine after the Snow Leopard upgrade. Any ideas? I spent a lot of time finding SoundFonts that worked with GB and if possible would like to know if they went somewhere else on the hard drive. Any help is appreciated

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Steve

MacBook 2.2 Ghz 160 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6), If laptops are broken or need upgrades, I'm your guy to get the job done right

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 11:55 AM

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WarriorAnt

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Sep 8, 2009 3:41 PM in response to Steve B5

Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

Also which path did you follow? did you look in the User path?

My soundfonts are in the following path.

Macintosh HD>Users>User name>Library>Audio>Sounds>Banks

After my Snow Leopard update my soundfonts are still here.

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Steve B5 Author

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Sep 8, 2009 4:13 PM in response to WarriorAnt

Hey Warrior. I went to all the libraries and all the sound banks and the folder where they were stored are empty. I did fix permissions. I also tried to run DataRescue to see if they were still on the HD, but the version I have will not run on Snow Leopard.

I did a GB reinstall from my OSX disks that came with my MacBook. It said it installed GB, but the app is not on the computer. I double clicked a GB files and said the application cannot be found.

GB and MIDI are about the only problems I have had sine the SL upgrade which I really like.
Something weird is definitely going wrong and this morning I was getting core messages and drivers not compatabile. Plus when I hit play, all the tracks were frozen and won't run.

I have to get GB running, I depend on it on live gigs.

Thanks steve

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WarriorAnt

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Sep 8, 2009 4:35 PM in response to Steve B5

You deleted all the GB pref stuff also? Rebooted you computer? You did a reinstall and GB isn't there?

What Mac do you have? And what Version GB, is it 08?

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Steve B5 Author

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Sep 8, 2009 6:52 PM in response to WarriorAnt

Hey Warrior. I finally had to call AppleCare and told the tech what was going on. We dumped all the GB plist preferences and reinstalled GB from the orginal OSX disks, then did the online update to 4.1.2, the latest GB08 version. I am using a white MacBook . The specs should be listed here.

Nothing has changed or improved in GB running. I open GB files and they either run or they are frozen, then GB crashes and sometimes a core audio box pops up, driver issues alerts. It seems GB08 just isn't working with Snow Leopard. I'm hoping Apple will do a OSX 10.6 patch update soon that might correct and stabilize the system. Any other ideas or workarounds that might get GB working again?

Thanks steve

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WarriorAnt

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Sep 8, 2009 7:20 PM in response to Steve B5

I once had trouble getting GB to start. It took me 3 weeks to figure it out. I had pimped out Quicktime with all kinds of codecs and after wards GB would not start.

I wonder if Quicktime 10.0 is affecting your GB version in some way.

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Oct 18, 2009 8:43 AM in response to WarriorAnt

i noticed my sound banks are missing as well. i looked in /library/audio/sounds/banks but they are not there. Apples System AU Component DLSSynth is located in /system/library/components/ actually the gs DLS sounfont or what every you want to call it is made by Roland is in that folder as well. Im wondering why i don't have any banks but now that i'm thinking about it i have done a clean install without installing GB. I will have to time travel back to leopard and check things out or install GB.

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WarriorAnt

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Oct 18, 2009 10:07 AM in response to nuMedia[science]

You DON'T do a clean install of Snow Leopard. Apple says NOT to do a clean install but an upgrade only. Do a clean install and lose your stuff along with incurring other unnecessary problems. This is why the Snow Leopard installer doen NOT offer clean install as an option.

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Joel Ong

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Nov 11, 2009 4:59 AM in response to Steve B5

Hi, I got the same problem too, only that I noticed it when one of my older GarageBand files kept crashing when I tried playing it.

It appears that upgrading (not clean installing) to Snow Leopard wipes the /Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks folder. Fortunately, with the magic of Time Machine, I was able to retrieve my SoundFonts. If you've upgraded from Leopard you probably would have a Time Machine setup already running.

Funny that an upgrade install would wipe that folder, though.

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WarriorAnt

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Nov 11, 2009 11:39 AM in response to Joel Ong

I upgraded to Snow Leopard and all of my 274 Soundfonts were still in the same "Banks" folder as before the upgrade.

This is the path were your Soundfonts should be.
Macintosh HD>Users>Your User Name>Library>Audio>Sounds>Banks. Look in this path.

I don't think you'll find and Soundfonts in the following path.
Macintosh HD>Library>Audio>Sounds>Banks.

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