I found some free loops and samples, but they were in SF2 format (sound font).
Unplayable, unless I could convert them.
Then I read and confirmed that they could be easily converted.
Simply load up Audacity, choose File/Import/Raw data from the drop-down menu.
Then save the file in what ever format you wish.
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Soundfont format is meant to be playable by Soundfont players. It should contain multiple sound snippets.
A Soundfont player (usually) is a plugin, e.g. a VST, that can be loaded in Reaper and now the Soundfont file can be played as a Midi "instrument"
Exploding an SF2 in multiple wav file might make sense in some cases. It looses the information how to play the dedicated samples. But this might be a way to e.g. create a Kontakt library from an sf2.
Thanks for the info...Sforzando will also create .sfz format files from soundfonts, which results in the WAV file being separated out along with the SFZ file.
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Originally Posted by jfog
I found some free loops and samples, but they were in SF2 format (sound font).
Unplayable, unless I could convert them.
Then I read and confirmed that they could be easily converted.
Simply load up Audacity, choose File/Import/Raw data from the drop-down menu.
Then save the file in what ever format you wish.
Yep you can use Sforzando and then after the conversion you can delete the SF2 and just use the SFZ. Sfz is a fast loading, human readable format with tons of expressive control. It's a wonder it hasn't completely taken over... one day... I can only dream.
Thanks for the info...Sforzando will also create .sfz format files from soundfonts, which results in the WAV file being separated out along with the SFZ file.
Yes, but interesting that the resultant separated WAV is just one long WAV with all the sounds end to end rather than a collection of separate WAVs found in the usual SFZ format package. That long WAV can of course be sliced up if that's what you want but interesting that when for example MDrummer imports sf2 files you get the separate WAVs, extracted to your hard drive and freely accessible. I wonder if that's what Audacity can do..I'll have to check.
BTW, a Sforzando created sfz file with it's accompanying long WAV is not playable by other SFZ format players.
It's a wonder it hasn't completely taken over... one day... I can only dream.
Similar as the Linux vs Windows/Mac discussion some years ago
While SFZ players have become rather versatile, the "closed" products - such as Kontakt 5 (6 coming soon) - still are way ahead regarding the playing features (e.g. the scripting engine and the effect count and quality engine) and (even more important) necessary to be used with a huge amount of existing high quality "must have" "software" (aka sound libraries) by well accepted companies that rely on it. Very important: NI provides (and gets payed for that) copy protection for the "closed" libraries by these companies.
Your dream maybe will start to come true when there is an Soundfont format and player perfectly compatible with Kontakt and provides importing Kontakt libraries. But the copy protection issue still will prevent "high quality" library providing companies from switching.
Convert sf2 Soundfont Files to WAV, ETC.
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