User guide

Using Sound Blaster Live! 14
&RQILJXUHDQ,QVWUXPHQW To configure an instrument:
1. In the SoundFont dialo
g
, click the Confi
g
ure
Instrument tab.
2. In the Select Bank list, select the bank whose
instruments
y
ou want to confi
g
ure.
3. In the Select Instrument list, select the instrument to
confi
g
ure.
In the Instrument Stack,
y
ou ma
y
see an instrument
entr
y
althou
g
h
y
ou did not load an instrument on this
pa
g
e. The instrument can be found in a bank loaded on
the Confi
g
ure Bank tab pa
g
e.
4. Click the Load button and load a SoundFont or sin
g
le-
instrument (for example, .WAV) file.
The last file loaded alwa
y
s appears at the top of the
Instrument Stack with an arrow pointin
g
to it.
5. To clear an instrument from the stack, select the instrument and then click the Clear button.
6. For faster processin
g
of SoundFont files, the files are loaded into memor
y
. You need to set the
maximum amount of cache memor
y
y
our SoundFont files can occup
y
, so that
y
our s
y
stem
performance does not suffer from insufficient memor
y
. You can also set the cachin
g
al
g
orithm for
a balanced s
y
stem performance.
Settin
g
the maximum amount of
cache memor
y
for SoundFont files
does not mean settin
g
aside or
reservin
g
the s
p
ace. The s
p
ace can
still be used b
y
y
our com
p
uter or
other files, if needed.
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