Hi Frank,
it's really bizzare. The XG sound bank is bank 127. Some of the GM kits are mixed up with the Bank 0 sounds and some are in Bank128 .
Anyway I managed to get them all sorted and saved them into a new soundfont.
All well and good. Then I happened to notice, my 24mb GM soundfont had grown to 132mbs. My laptop doesn't appear to work properly with the Alive software. The 44mb gs font, when copied to a new font , grew to 312mbs. I then did exactly the same thing ie copied the gmfonts to a new soundfont, but I did it in my desktop computer instead and it worked perfectly. Problem is I need it to work in my laptop not the desktop.
I may need to forget about the fonts in the laptop and eventually I'll get to use them in the desktop.
Frank, I wasn't expecting the fonts to sound the same as my xg sounds. I'm not good with drums ( balancing the drum sounds in a track) , and I thought if I can match volumes of individual drums to my xg drums it might make it easier.

I don't regret having gotten involved with the soundfonts, it's been an interesting learning experience. Unfortunately as far as my laptop's concerned, I won't be able to do create my own fonts etc. When we move and I get hold of the desktop , I'll be able to get more involved again with the fonts.

May do a bit more fiddling round with Hypercanvas and see if that works better in my laptop. I noticed I can do a certain amount of editing of sounds.

best wishes
Rikki

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