I fail to understand why you have posted DiscoDSP Highlife. Do you even own it? I do. Highlife, and Bliss both have the ability to create sampled instruments from other VSTs (at least the old version of DiscoDSP Highlife does, the new version had the ability removed). But that has nothing to do with it being a gui based SFZ instrument creator. It can't create midi CC capable SFZ files. In fact, both Highlife and Bliss use such a small number of SFZ opcodes that they barely get beyond the sample mapping stage. I believe, when I checked last, that in total, less than 10 opcodes were used to create the instruments that SFZ and Bliss make. They are as limited as the ones I make--in fact, more so. If you want to post a useful example, you need to mention a synth. For example, Altitude uses SFZ instruments for the sampled oscillator section of the instrument, and uses regular synth tools such as filters, midi cc, adsr, etc., etc., as a synth. Everything is accessible. I don't meant to be rude or negative in any way. I really don't. But DiscoDSP Highlife is a poor example.wikter wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 2:29 pmDiscoDSP Highlifeaudiojunkie wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:46 pm Sfizz-UI is more of a library player than a sampler. It doesn’t have a GUI for creating instrument presets. That’s been the Achilles heel of SFZ since the beginning. Things would be completely different for SFZ if an open source GUI-based instrument creator had been developed by someone. SFZ is a nice format, but the ability to code the gui components and the midi cc controls and such that make SFZ really useful is outside of the abilities of a non-programmer to create from a text file. Most musicians are not programmers. This is why Shortcircuit-XT holds so much promise.
Sadly, when it comes to SFZ for most users, it really is the synths that use SFZ as oscillators that have made the format useable, with the exception of those few SFZ instruments that have been designed by those who understand coding and can code in the opcodes that are required for Midi cc code of those important things that I mentioned above. This is why Shortcircuit holds so much promise.
