I love the PAN spread facility, which I use to put the bass to the left and the treble to the right, and give me a real stereo effect as the keyboard is played. Instead of someone splitting the hands to give two to four staves, and assigning PAN values to each stave, SynthFont assigns each individual KEY on the keyboard a value from left to right as if you were sitting right in front of the keyboard [or the opposite if you prefer to be sitting right behind the upright piano] and thus puts the sound for that key to the left to right according to its placement. No other software does that... I use it with a 200% spread as well, to increase the spread of the sound, and then use earphones. You can really hear the difference when you do that, whether it is simply to listen to the midi being played or to create a wav or wma or ogg or mp3 file for use elsewhere. Try it with almost any rag downloaded from the Perfessor Bill Edwards or the James Pitt-Payne web sites and you will immediately hear what I love about the use of PAN spread [unless the sound font you use already does that based on the specific key(s) pressed, which some do].
SynthFont
I love the PAN spread facility, which I use to put the bass to the left and the treble to the right, and give me a real stereo effect as the keyboard is played. Instead of someone splitting the hands to give two to four staves, and assigning PAN values to each stave, SynthFont assigns each individual KEY on the keyboard a value from left to right as if you were sitting right in front of the keyboard [or the opposite if you prefer to be sitting right behind the upright piano] and thus puts the sound for that key to the left to right according to its placement. No other software does that... I use it with a 200% spread as well, to increase the spread of the sound, and then use earphones. You can really hear the difference when you do that, whether it is simply to listen to the midi being played or to create a wav or wma or ogg or mp3 file for use elsewhere. Try it with almost any rag downloaded from the Perfessor Bill Edwards or the James Pitt-Payne web sites and you will immediately hear what I love about the use of PAN spread [unless the sound font you use already does that based on the specific key(s) pressed, which some do].