Hello Ng,

If I'm not mistaken, Most keyboards with internal sounds take their sounds from a ROM chip, with only a few megabytes of storage space in them for samples (admittedly the 'Big 3' workstations have got anywhere from 300MB to 1GB of sample ROM onboard these days last time I checked). Additionally, they're not in Soundfont format either, but rather a proprietary format that can only be read by the keyboard's embedded OS. If you really needed those sounds on your computer, I guess you could sample/loop them yourself, but that'd probably be quite time consuming! On the other hand, you 'could' just plug in a midi cable into the keyboard and just sequence like that!

Tl;Dr: No. :-)

Andrew.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

This is probably a dumb question, but is there a way to extract sound
fonts from (for example) a Korg keyboard? I like the sheer range of
sounds my Korg has, but would like to record in MIDI rather than as
audio for ease of editing. Once its in MIDI it would be convenient to
have the Korg's sound fonts available on my machine so I wouldn't need
the Korg around to playback.

I'm guessing it probably can't be done, but figure it can't hurt to ask.

Thanks.

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