Hi Lutz,
In answer to your #1, I have yet to find anything besides Swami that
runs natively in Linux, and unfortunately, it's too unstable for me to
use right now. I have had to do all of my SoundFont editing from
Windows using Vienna SoundFont Studio 2. However, this program will
only run if you have a qualifying Creative sound card, which is not
properly detected under Wine. I tried running another program, Viena
(one 'n') under Wine, and it works for the most part, but crashes when
saving or creating new files--which is a shame, since even the sound
auditioning works under Linux. Your mileage may vary
(http://www.synthfont.com/).
In response to #2, there are a lot of badly designed SoundFont banks
out there, and it would be nice to be able to sift through unnecessary
instrument level duplications. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything
that can do this automatically.
-~Chris
Lutz Morelater wrote:
Hi,
SoundFont files are an essential part for fluidsynth. I have two questions
related to them.
1.) I would like to know which is the cleverest way to work on them?
There is swami, I have used that, but swami is probably best for finetuning
sounds and creating a SF2 file and not for reorganizing large soundbanks
spread over several files. And swami has crashed on my laptop quite
frequently when I was not doing much apart from browsing (listening) a few
(two, three, four) SF2 files. There was no error message, it was just gone.
What I need is some way to handle SF2 files.
For example: I have downloaded several rather large GM compatible collections
of sounds and now I want to keep only those instruments (presets) of them
that really sound great to me. I am going to discard any drumset in a SF2
file and create a seperate file for drumsets, and my soundbanks should have
no more than 100 sounds each (that condition is caused by my MIDI hardware
controller panel that is unable to select soundnumbers greater than 99).
I have found that the file size often is misleading, i.e. large files contain
nice sounds and crappy sounds as well, as do small sized collections not only
contain crappy sounds but also real gems.
So the question is how to effeciently reorder/resort/reorganize instruments so
that I get my very own collection of sounds.
2.) The next thing I need to know is if there is a tool that helps to identify
doublettes of sounds. Many SF2 files contain similar or even identical
instruments that differ from each other in hardly any detail, if at all. It
would be great if a tool, fed with SF2 file names, could browse all presets
in the files and remove all sounds that can already be found in one of the
SF2 files checked.
Thanks for any help,
Lutz.
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