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Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:46 am

Does anyone know if theres a free soundfont to .wav convertor? If not what are the best reasonably priced sample convertors which support soundfonts? thanks

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:59 am

Oh and also whats the difference between .sf2 and .sfArk? Im guessing the first is a standard sample/samples and the second is a collection of soundfonts?

LOOPxDIGGA · Post by **LOOPxDIGGA** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:08 am

.sfark is a type of compression someone made just for soundfonts....like a .zip file, or .rar file for soundfonts..

dunno about your other question....its acytually something id like to know myself...

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:10 am

Ah ok, thanks for the info

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:10 am

What do you mean? You can't convert a "soundfont" to "wav", they're different things. Do you mean something that will dump all the wave files inside an sf2 to your hard drive??

sf2 is the default extension for soundfonts. sfArk is a compression format, just like .zip or .rar, specificaly designed to compress soundfonts' information. You need sfArk installed to decompress it to sf2 format.

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:45 am

Do you mean something that will dump all the wave files inside an sf2 to your hard drive??

Yeah to extract all the sounds to wav sounds, i guess i could always get a soundfont player and record using some sound recording app but im guessing theres a simpler way?

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:48 am

Just found this -

http://www.extranslator.com/formats.html

that says it converts to wav but im guessing there might be a free app similar to this program somewhere?

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:58 am

What I used to do, when I used soundfonts a lot, was use Creative's Vienna soundfont editor. You can export the wave files from this program and edit them directly in a wave editor. If you're willing to pay, there is Extreme Sample Converter. Awave Studio and SoundFaction Alive come to mind as well.

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:00 am

Cool, and Creative's Vienna soundfont editor is free then? will google it

Edit - Seems to be for certain souncards or something so maybe it won't work, this is it right?

http://developer.creative.com/articles/ ... =52&aid=69

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:05 am

If you're not using a Creative card, it may not work. If you have Kontakt, VSampler, DirectWave or any sampler that reads soundonfts, they'll rip the waves and save them to a folder, in order to translate them.

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:08 am

Ok thanks

rokkon · Post by **rokkon** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:09 am

I used to have a free tool that could (amongst other things) automatically extract all wavs of a sf2 in one go. unfortunately I've forgotten the name..

rokkon · Post by **rokkon** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:14 am

I remembered.
http://homepages.compuserve.de/murmel99/software.htm

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:15 am

Hey, well done! Never heard of that...

Atmosphere600 · Post by **Atmosphere600** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:20 am

Cool thanks

Soundfonts To Wav?