Megafont

Megafont is a program created for dynamically managing, loading and unloading SoundFont files on Creative SBLive! cards. I.e. it's a dynamic cache manager for SBLive!.

Look at "AudioHQ/SoundFont/Options/SoundFont cache". There is only one choice here: "Static caching". Now there exists an alternative way.

The main feature of megafont is an ability to simultaneously use large collections of SoundFonts without (again and again) making any changes in the SoundFont section of the AudioHQ. And it's especially useful when the size of collection and/or separate files (but not presets!) is far above the half of total system memory (which is the maximal configurable size of static cache with Creative drivers).

The second most usable feature of megafont is that it allows to qickly create SoundFont files from existing SoundFont and .wav files. Everything written here concerns not only SBLive! but the EMU APS cards too.

System requirements

• Windows'98, Windows 2000/NT; • SFEDT32.DLL for creating SoundFont files. This is not necessary for other megafont features; • SBLive!/LiveWare for stable work or SBLive!/APSLive drivers or true EMU APS card for not so stable work; • You need some MIDI loopback to redirect sequencer's MIDI OUTs to megafont. This can be Hubi's LoopBack device (Windows 95/98) or MIDI Yoke Junction (Windows'95/98 and NT/2000) or whatever you like. You can find them at the MAZ Sound Tools page in section Tools/Misc.

Articles about Megafont: • Megafont - Why and How: http://goo.gl/87m9Z • Instructions for using this with Windows XP can be found in http://goo.gl/EXFJZ