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John, Just by chance I stumbled upon one bug in the latest versions (it must have been there for a long time!) that may or may not be causing you problems. The error is in how the Purge function handles samples with bad stereo pair links. Like in this SoundFont: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jzuvcaf72w4...

Thanks Mike, when I get the time I will figure out why SyFonOne "misbehaves" with small buffer sizes like 256 samples (with ASIO, of course - I use ASIO4ALL). Shouldn't be any reasons for it, really. Here is my first test version of a new VSTSynthFont: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rybmltwk9cf...

Thanks John,
I've spent literally days - if not weeks - trying to reproduce this behavior, but with no luck. If you think you can reproduce it an send me the instructions I would jump of joy!

Mike, looking into the issue now. One question: have you ever tested my midi port (=your keyboard's port) player, SyFonOne? It has basically the same synth engine as the VST instrument but as it runs in its own thread there's very little risk that your keyboard jams. Just set it up to hook to your k...

Hi Mike,
I will look into it. It sounds like a possible reason for the host (any host) to get locked up for a short while, especially if the SoundFont is large. I could include an option to have the VST load the complete SoundFont into memory at startup, of course. Like in SyFonOne. I'll think about.

Well, well... I gave it a try but SynthFont2 would still not accept the Faust generated DLL on my computer. I got the error message "Invalid access to memory location" from Windows when loading the DLL (using the standard Windows LoadLibrary function). REPAER though managed to load the fil...

There is actually a third alternative: You can create a SoundFont in which, for one or several Presets (aka Instruments), each note or range of notes plays a different sound. You an use my SoundFont editor Viena to achieve this, quite easily.

When using a midi file , there are two ways to achieve this effect: 1) if two (or several) notes are played in sequence (not fully at the same time) you can insert a midi program change event between each note and thereafter assign a new SoundFont/Preset to each of these program changes 2) this seco...

Okay! Got it! Back to work.

Thanks for telling me. I need to investigate and release a new version quickly, then.