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451MainStage Instruments
Add SoundFont2, DLS, and Gigasampler files
Sampler recognizes SoundFont2, DLS, and Gigasampler files placed inside the Sampler
Instruments folder and automatically converts them into sampler instruments.
You can store your imported sampler instruments in any folder on any of your computer
hard drives. You can access these instruments from the Settings pop-up menu if stored in
the default location: ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Sampler Instruments folder.
If your files are stored elsewhere, you will need to create an alias in the ~/Music/Audio
Music Apps/Sampler Instruments folder that points to the target folder.
Add SoundFont2, DLS, or Gigasampler files to your Sampler library
1. Open Finder.
2. Copy or move your SoundFont2, DLS, or Gigasampler files into the ~/Music/Audio Music
Apps/Sampler Instruments folder.
A sampler instrument file is created in the Sampler Instruments folder.
3. The raw samples associated with the sampler instrument are placed automatically in a
folder named after their original format in ~/Music/Audio Music Apps.
4. To use the added instrument, choose it from the format submenu in the Settings pop-up
menu.
SoundFont2 files can contain multiple sounds, stored in “banks,” in addition to single-
instrument files.
When you load a SoundFont2 bank into Sampler, it creates a bank folder (.bk) and a
Samples folder, named after the SoundFont2 bank file. The .bk suffix is appended to each
folder name. A sampler instrument file is automatically created for all sounds in the bank
and is placed in the new bank folder.
The Settings pop-up menu automatically updates to reflect the new folder hierarchy. All
samples associated with the bank are automatically added to a Samples folder inside
the SoundFont folder. For example, if you load a SoundFont2 bank file named Vintage
Drums, which contains dozens of individual drum kits from several different vintage drum
machines, into Sampler, the following happens:
• A new folder named Vintage Drums.bk is created in the ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/
Sampler Instruments/E-MU folder.
• A second folder named Vintage Drums.sf2.Samples is created in the ~/Music/Audio
Music Apps/SoundFont Samples folder.
• The Settings pop-up menu hierarchy is updated and the original Vintage Drums entry
is replaced with a Vintage Drums.bk entry. This new entry is a folder that contains the
individual sampler instruments, which can be selected and loaded as usual.