New free SFZ player from Plogue

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Izak Synthiemental wrote:I cannot understand how anyone would have the audacity to put absurd demands to the developer!
Its not absurd, and i didnt demand anything. Infact, all i did was ask if it had this feature.

Please get your facts right before ranting.

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Kriminal wrote:If you have ie a drumkit sfz and you want to step program in the PR with the mouse, its good to see whats where. Essentisl really. Lots of drum machines do this.
Just so you know why the objections have been raised, Krim, it's the "Essential really" that puts this in the category of "demand" rather than "request". If you'd just said "when I'm working with a set of samples, I find it handy" and left it at that, no one would have complained. FYI, I don't think you'd get any benefit working on sets of 20 samples from a product like this. I've just mapped two drum kits, one with 2557 samples, the other with 2113. In situations like this, being able to use SFZ format works wonderfully. If you just want to drag'n'drop a handful of samples onto a piano roll, you want a different product.

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pljones wrote:
Kriminal wrote:If you have ie a drumkit sfz and you want to step program in the PR with the mouse, its good to see whats where. Essentisl really. Lots of drum machines do this.
Just so you know why the objections have been raised, Krim, it's the "Essential really" that puts this in the category of "demand" rather than "request". If you'd just said "when I'm working with a set of samples, I find it handy" and left it at that, no one would have complained.
i still dont see it as a DEMAND...its a comment. I asked if the feature was there, he said it wasnt. I didnt actually ask him to put it in, i just its essential for me, if the product doesnt have it, i wont use it. :shrug:
pljones wrote: FYI, I don't think you'd get any benefit working on sets of 20 samples from a product like this. I've just mapped two drum kits, one with 2557 samples, the other with 2113. In situations like this, being able to use SFZ format works wonderfully. If you just want to drag'n'drop a handful of samples onto a piano roll, you want a different product.
that comment was aimed at the bloke from PA who was talking about GM mapping. I was trying to explain that not everyone uses standard kits/naming. It was just an example.

anyway the product isnt for me so i'll leave it, clearly some ppl are getting upset about nothing. :wink:

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Baard wrote:To elaborate:

With Sforzando, you have made exactly what we was missing in a free sfz player. Great DFD, GUI controls, 64bit, Full support for KS, RRs etc.. Linuxsampler has most of these, but its way harder to use and configure. The only thing its missing is multitimbral operation, but it really isnt that important IMO.

Its a real game changer that can turn many more people towards the format, and make it live for a long time. Congratulations Plogue, you will be remembered! :)
Couldn't say it better.
Just keep the SFZ core support up to date and address any possible bugs.
Keep the bells and whistles for commercial products but let Sforzando be solid and efficient.

- Mario

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Cool stuff, I just downloaded and installed, works good and having stand alone is fantastic, very quick to fire up and have a play, the free sounds are cool too.
It seems somehow it picked up automatically my Alchemy sounds too, when I go to the menu to select sounds I have Alchemy option and I can select sounds from there too awesome!
Drag and drop works good too, straight from the folder on top of it.

Congratulations on fantastic work and Thankyou.

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OK... it's been a long time since I did an SFZ drum kit and this one has taken a long time (started, uh... October last year...). This is a commercial kit, so you will need to go buy the samples! (Go buy them! - might as well get the Tape Series Two bundle... ;)) The (completed) mapping is for the Gorilla kit. Mappings live here.
MP3 demo (4.8Mb; there's a FLAC link on the page above; no complaining about my drumming... ;))

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I see it's been updated to 1.625 from 1.621 - cannot see any change log though...

- Mario

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mabian wrote:I see it's been updated to 1.625 from 1.621 - cannot see any change log though...

- Mario
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/plogue-upd ... -2-5-21295

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Thanks, I totally missed it.

- Mario

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Sforzando is AMAZING! Thanks so much :)

Really nice touch that you can open the SFZ in a text editor and change it real time.

It sounds greedy to ask, but please enable multiple outputs in the VST version! I think it would then be finished and never need another new feature again :)

With multi out we could have drum kits as well as single instruments, I think I could retire shortcircuit and have all sample playback using Sforzando.

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thermal wrote:With multi out we could have drum kits as well as single instruments
You can do this already if you do your mixing inside Sforzando. Each kit piece should have a CC assigned to its amplitude, then you'll see that CC on the Controls panel and be able to adjust it in real time / record your adjustments.

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:cry: But I would like a separate mixer channel for each drum sound so I can apply vol/pan/plugins/sends/buses etc

I think you said it was planned... just a bump to say 'hope its soon' :)

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Plogue has said it'll come (I'm not sure when) - I was just pointing out you've a lot of flexibility already :).

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I was reading earlier posts to this thread and someone mentioned a free sample pack to go with this program? I downloaded this and I didn't get any free sound with it. :/ Maybe it was for a limited time or something, I noticed this was posted some time before Christmas, so maybe it was a holiday thing. Oh well, I guess I'll just settle with Sonatina for now.

Great program by the way, Prefer this one to the old SFZ player I was using before. :)

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If you are looking for a free program, you must try the Salamander Grand Piano V3:

http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/

It is incredible!

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