KVR Audio

ulrichburke · Post by **ulrichburke** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:33 am

Dear Anyone.

I wanted an SFZ player because I was having no luck whatsoever in getting any VOLUME out of Plogue. Sound, yes, but SOOO faint you couldn't really hear it.

So I found a link for something called SFz+ by RGC Audio (it's listed on this site but they've got it under Cakewalk for some reason, someone obviously mis-listed it, it clearly says RGC Audio on the screenshot!) As it's called SFZ+, it's obviously for SFZ files as well as soundfonts but I can't make it load Piano In 162 nohow.

Help?

Yours puzzledly

Chris.

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:05 am

actually, as weird as it seems, it only loads sf2 files (iirc)

ulrichburke · Post by **ulrichburke** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:12 am

So why's it called SFZ+ if it doesn't load SFZs?

Yours puzzledly

Chris.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:28 am

ulrichburke wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:33 am Dear Anyone.

I wanted an SFZ player because I was having no luck whatsoever in getting any VOLUME out of Plogue. Sound, yes, but SOOO faint you couldn't really hear it.

So I found a link for something called SFz+ by RGC Audio (it's listed on this site but they've got it under Cakewalk for some reason, someone obviously mis-listed it, it clearly says RGC Audio on the screenshot!) As it's called SFZ+, it's obviously for SFZ files as well as soundfonts but I can't make it load Piano In 162 nohow.

Help?

Yours puzzledly

Chris.

RGC Audio was a division of Cakewalk. The SFZ+ name on this synth was massively confusing from day one of its release, and created a great deal of backlash that could have been avoided, but was never "fixed" by just renaming it. If you just want to play SFZ files, get the SFZ 'player'.

heres some history for you , if you are interested.

http://www.delmarlearning.com/companion ... _FINAL.pdf

ulrichburke · Post by **ulrichburke** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:40 am

Dear Shabdabriah.

Sorry to be a flamin' nuisance. I've got the SFz player now, thanks to you. I've loaded Ivy Audio's Piano in 162 into it - but I can't get any sound coming back out again! Total silence. (Might be the best thing for my compositions, but there U go!) I've downloaded the SFz Buddy too, but still no noise.

Do you have Piano in 162 and could tell me what I'm doing wrong, or anything similar? I mean I've downloaded other SFzs which work fine in it, but this is supposed to be the best piano and I can't get a squeak out of it. If it helps, it makes a TINY bit of sound in Plogue but it's totally unusably quiet and I don't know what I'm not seeing.

Yours puzzledly again

Chris.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:47 am

ulrichburke wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:40 am Dear Shabdabriah.

Sorry to be a flamin' nuisance. I've got the SFz player now, thanks to you. I've loaded Ivy Audio's Piano in 162 into it - but I can't get any sound coming back out again! Total silence. (Might be the best thing for my compositions, but there U go!) I've downloaded the SFz Buddy too, but still no noise.

Do you have Piano in 162 and could tell me what I'm doing wrong, or anything similar? I mean I've downloaded other SFzs which work fine in it, but this is supposed to be the best piano and I can't get a squeak out of it. If it helps, it makes a TINY bit of sound in Plogue but it's totally unusably quiet and I don't know what I'm not seeing.

Yours puzzledly again

Chris.

No worries. I'm having trouble finding a viable link to download that piano, though I know I have it stashed somewhere. and yes it is really good. My initial thought was that it IS almost 5GB in size, and you may have issues with that depending on how much RAM you have, as I don't think SFZ streams from disk, but I'm not sure. Have other SFZ's worked in it??? While I'm searching for the piano, is this the "SFZ" you got?
...

Screenshot_2020-10-19 VST4FREE2.png

if not, here is a link for it.
scroll down the page to click on the download arrow 'below' the "buddy" thingy:
...

Screenshot_2020-10-19 VST4FREE.png

https://vst4free.com/plugin/217/

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:08 am

Here is a lighter weight piano, to test.

https://archive.org/download/K18Upright ... -Piano.zip

audio examples:

http://rudifiasco.altervista.org/

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:17 am

Here's another one:

https://www.michaelpichermusic.com/bina ... ight-piano

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:28 am

Also, this is available in 32 and 64bit, loads SFZ, and may be more user friendly:

https://www.zampler.de/

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:07 pm

Or get Sforzando.

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:42 pm

Shabdahbriah wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:28 am Also, this is available in 32 and 64bit, loads SFZ, and may be more user friendly:

https://www.zampler.de/

very limited sfz articulations tho, only single layer etc

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:59 pm

AnX wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:42 pm
Shabdahbriah wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:28 am Also, this is available in 32 and 64bit, loads SFZ, and may be more user friendly:

https://www.zampler.de/
very limited sfz articulations tho, only single layer etc

Ah. good to know. I only used it for REX, but it has been at least a couple of years ago.

Dumbass alert - how do you load SFzs into SFZ+