Soundfont Creation

Hello folks,

I am learning how to create soundfonts and I'm struggling.

I am starting off just experimenting and trying to make one soundfile with one sample and have it play back. I have not had any success so far and I have scoured the forums, the online manual and the internet looking for guidance, and while there is a lot of info about soundfonts, I do not find the key info I need. If anyone knows of a simple tutorial for creation of a very basic soundfont that tells you the essentials to make the thing work in MuseScore, I would be very grateful.

I am using Audacity to create my WAV file and Polyphone to create the soundfont. The best I have done so far is to create a soundfont with a single WAV file where the first split second of the sample plays but that is it. The WAV has a tiny sound at the beginning, a bit of silence and then a vocal tone for about 5 seconds. It plays the tiny sound at the beginning. I have tried using the loop function in Polyphone so that only the vocal tone is selected but then nothing at all is heard playing when I assign the soundfont from the mixer.

I could not attach the soundfont file. I have attached an MSCZ file with a measure where I have chosen my soundfont using the mixer. I applied it to the drum kit but I have also selected it on the same staff as the nylon string and the result is no different. If anyone has any insight on why this will not function would they please let me know what I am doing wrong?