I'm not sure. My thought on Garage band is that you're loading in instruments per track, so you're not using the QuickTime synthesizer. That would seem to be something completely separate. This is for people who just want to play back midi files from the web in QuickTime.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Poehlman Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:05 AM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind Subject: Re: midi synth Hi Kevin, does this effect garage band? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 2:27 AM Subject: RE: midi synth Changing the midi synth is easy. I've done it before and it completely works. Here's how it works. All the QuickTime synthesizer is is a soundfont. To change the soundfont do the following. Note the soundfont that you choose must be gm, or any midi files played back will not sound right. 1. Download a soundfont of your choice, if you want to find some good ones, go to www.hammersound.com, or just Google for gm soundfont. The soundfont is a file with the extension .sf2. 2. Place the soundfont into /library/audio/sounds/banks. 3. Open up the QuickTime preference pane. Go to the advanced tab. There, you will find a popup button that says something like QuickTime Synthesizer. Click into that menu and you should see your newly added font. 4. Select that and close the preference pane. Now you should be rockin. Hope this helps
