unc92sax

Thinking About Selling Dp4

I've used Performer and DP for nearly 10 years now. They are like an old friend. However, I have never fully utilized DP's capabilities (and who could?). I use it mainly for doing accompaniments for my sax playing (weddings and such) and making demos of band arrangements. Only once have I recorded audio into it. I mostly export midi to audio with it using SF2 GM/GS synths I have customized. (iTunes and QT Pro lose alot of audio level when rendering midi to audio as I mentioned in an earlier thread).

If I were to sell my DP4, I would still want something as useful to me, but not as expensive / expansive and something that is easy on my CPU (G4 450). I also want it to be SF2/VST/AU compatible. Are there any suggestions? I have looked into GarageBand, Logic, et al., but have come to no conclusions.

Please help with this "big" decision.

Big Loss Of Volume Rendering Midi To Aiff

Whether using iTunes or QTPro, when I export a midi file to aiff (using my own soundfont per QT music prefs), the volume is dramatically lowered. I even customized the iTunes export to 48000 khz and 16-bit. It helped but not much (improved from pppp to ppp). Does anyone have any idea how to solve this. I am trying to sell some jazz play-along CDs on eBay and need to solve this problem.

I also have DP4, but it will not render from a soundfont (or will it?). And before anyone suggests it, I do have and use wiretap but I have hundreds of SMFs to render and that would take weeks.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.