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CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:05 pm

Anyone know of a soundfont editor for non-Sound Blaster cards?

Crossinger · Post by **Crossinger** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:12 pm

Maybe Alive?

http://www.soundfaction.com/alive/

Or you choose a universal filetool like

Awave - http://www.fmjsoft.com/ or
EXSC - http://www.extranslator.com/en/news.htm

both with SF2 support

HTH

J.

Memorex · Post by **Memorex** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:10 pm

Only 2 options I know of that are any good:

Vienna:
requires Creative hardware
lacks some useful editing features
is stable
is free

Alive:
works with Creative hardware or LiveSynth (out of business), however, it should start without Creative hardware (Vienna won't), and you can use any Soundfont player to audition your edits, but you'll have to save your work each time and launch in an external player. Best Soundfont players:

RGC sfz(+) - most accurate, almost everything sounds as good or better than my SBLive, buts runs rather CPU heavy on my system.

Bismark bs-1 or 16 - not quite as mature as sfz, but sounds almost as good with most soundfonts, has continuously variable MIDI dynamic control, uses considerably less CPU on my system.

dougsyo · Post by **dougsyo** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:09 pm

I suggested that Soundfaction get hold of Rene and work out a deal to use sfz as an audition option since livesynth's defunct. It appears they haven't done anything with it yet... it's the same version out there that I downloaded last year.

Doug

CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:29 pm

anybody ever tried "synthfont?"

http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/1030.html

Jeremy_NSL · Post by **Jeremy_NSL** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:39 pm

I searched for a good sf2 editor and came up with nothing. maybe this synthfont is the ticket - haven't tried it yet and don't have the time right now..

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:24 pm

Last time I tried it, SynthFont wasn't a soundfont editor, just a SMF/SF2 player. The UI was sound enough and I think the author was considering extending it to edit... Maybe I'll have another look.

(Soundwise, it was pretty CPU heavy but not bad. I prefer sfz+, though.)

nutsadamus · Post by **nutsadamus** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:44 pm

The best one I've tried is Awave, and its much more than just a SF editor. It'll convert just about any sample format into SF, or vis/versa. The only annoyance is that you can't audition your edits within Awave without Creative hardware (as faw as I know).

Sfz plays back all my Awave-edited SF's perfectly, wheras %50 of the ones edited in ALive would play back with messed up loop points, resulting in clicks & pops when sustaining notes.

Alive is a PITA when it comes to editing note-mappings and layers because it won't let you copy and paste anyrthing across several layers.

Both Alive and Awave have demo versions, try em out for yourself.

CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:14 am

yea, it doesn't seem to be now that i tried it. Esbeekay 1.21 doesn't seem to work either. No biggie, was just curious...

TechnoWeeniePas · Post by **TechnoWeeniePas** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:06 am

Even though its made by Creative I dont think that it is exclusive to their cards. May want to check out Vienna SoundFont Editor. Here is a link to the file:
http://developer.creative.com/articles/ ... enna23.zip

DHR53 · Post by **DHR53** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:29 am

Emu had a free soundfont editor, that I got off their website last year... Worked great... I don't know if they still have it, but PM me, I think I still have the installer!

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:50 pm

Since the vast majority of us are using Rene's sfz or sfz+ anyway, maybe you could go for the sfz format instead? All you need is a text editor, or maybe excel would be better , to create your definition files.

see the rgcaudio site for more details and check the rgcaudio forum here on KvR for news of sfz editors by others.

Soundfont Editor?