I have samples on my hard drive that I would like to use as patches or instruments (or whatever they're called). Is this possible? Thanks in advance.
This depends on your setup. If your MIDI setup supports sound fonts, then you can create a custom sound font with your sounds. If you do a little searching for soundfont in this forum, and around the web, you can learn the full details of how to do this.
...and even if your setup is not soundfont-capable, you can render your midi files to wav by Audio Compositor and use your soundfonts as "instrument file"s.
Warning: you may experience clicks in the resulted wave.
Aaron,
Further to Noteworthy's reply:
If you have a soundfont-capable soundcard, look for Vienna. I think that early versions of it (at least) are freely downloadable. You'll need to roll up your sleeves a bit to get the sounds working really well, but if quick and dirty suits, it shouldn't be too difficult. Note that these sorts of programs do have a steep learning curve to start with, so maybe Audio Compositor is easier?
HTH,
A
You can't make sfs w. Audio Compositor. It stands for converting midi data to waveform using several types of "instrument files" including sf2s.
Btw, it's easy to use, indeed.
Hth.