Can you take indifidual SF's out of a SF bank?

[PaulG]

Hello,

I just bought papelmedia.de 's monster orchestral soundfont, but 300MB is way too impractical for multiple instances and it won't even load with SFZ and Tracktion.

Since I'm new to SoundFonts in general, those of you in the know - is it easy to take individual sounds out of soundfont "banks" and save them to their own soundfont files?

I'm trying to play around with Vienna, but the download is acting funny...

Thanks,

- Paul

[pljones]

You can but you need the right tools.

I think the AWave demo lets you extract single instruments. I'd imagine the (paid for, $25) Extreme Sample Converter would, too. (The demo butchers the samples down to 8 bit, IIRC.)

(Of course, as I push sfz format at every opportunity, I have to point out that Steve Holt's sfZed lets you do it... but you end up with an sfz format sampleset rather than a soundfont.)

Or you could try to find SF2COMP.

[marce]

Yes you can. With vienna or any other (the one that comes with synthfont, by ex)
Be aware that many of the instruments of the papelmedia soundfont are free soundfonts that you can download in the web. By example, some of the strings comes from Campbell's soundfonts that you can download at www.hammersound.net

luck!

[Apparition]

Vsampler does this also, you just click on the instrument you want to out of the bank and it imports that instrument to a new bank.

[zvon]

EMU's Soundfont Librarian does it. It's freeware and very easy to use.

http://developer.creative.com/articles/ ... =52&aid=70