Extracting samples from Soundfonts?

[Kim Lajoie]

Is there a free tool I can use to extract the samples from a soundfont file? I know Vienna 2.3 can do it, but it needs a SBLive (or similar) installed, and I removed my SBLive long ago.

Forever,




Kim.

[justified]

There is a freeware comand line utility for compiling and decompiling sf2s.


http://www.hammersound.net/mirrors/last_night/sf.htm

[lawapa]

Awave can but it 's not free. Quite a tool though. A must have on this end. But have you ever concidered just bouncing the font to audio? I mean what could be simpler? Now figuring how it's mapped with out seeing the files might be quite an ear training exercise but unless it's a first class font with little or no streach you can hear the diff. And best of all it's free.

[steveholt]

You could also use sfZed. It is a free editor for the sfz format, but does soundfont import, and outputs wave files - which is what the sfz format uses. It currently only puts loops in the waves when they are in the soundfont sample itself, but that will be fixed soon.

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 07&start=0

Steve

[jmh]

AFAIR Vienna requires a SB compatible card for playback, so extracting waveforms could be done. I'm only 99% sure about it though

Regards,

JMH

[TrekStar]

try the demo of exsc. you can extract single files. in the demo mod they are a little bit data reduced but definitely usable

http://www.extranslator.com/en/download.htm

[Jafo]

try synthfont

-- just another f*cking observer

[Kim Lajoie]

AFAIR Vienna requires a SB compatible card for playback, so extracting waveforms could be done. I'm only 99% sure about it though

Nope. Vienna refuses to even start up if it can't find an EMU10k.


Anyway - thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll be checking out some of those tools!


Forever,




Kim.