making soundfonts

[blaster78]

i have a bunch of samples from various synths/harmonium/field recordings and i would like to make a soundfont up out of them so i can put them together in crystal.

i have all the wavs, some will loop, some are one shots. how do i go about creating a soundfont ?

cheers,

steve.

[C00kie]

* Viena (one n, the Vienna from Creative Labs requires a true SoundBlaster card)
* Awave Studio by fmjsoft worked even better for me.

and there are some others probably...

A previous thread on the same subject: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1820447

[blaster78]

thanks mate, awave is great. shame the unregistered version will only let you save once and only single instruments.

as nice as it is $140 to make some soundfonts for a free synth is a bit steep...

thanks,

steve.

[C00kie]

Maybe you can create instruments with Awave, and do the merge of instruments into bigger soundfonts with Viena?

[blaster78]

Maybe you can create instruments with Awave, and do the merge of instruments into bigger soundfonts with Viena?

cool, i'll try that, actually, the single instrument thing isn't as big a problem as i thought, once they are in the crystal soundfont directory they all just show up in the menu.

nice one.

steve.

[loomchild]

An alternative solution would be to use SFZED(free)which is a standalone piece of software that builds sfz files, map your soundfiles and export the program with the corresponding waves as sfz and then use a converter like Extanslator(affordable) to convert the whole to a soundfont. It may sound cumbersome on paper but the entire operation takes a minute or so providing your soundfiles are named according to the corresponding note.

Sfzed: http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html
Extreme Sample Converter : http://www.extranslator.com/