Soundfonts Maker ?

pierre

Hello,

with the recent purchase of Auria Pro, I'm wondering if there is an app that let you build your own soundfonts .sfz ( my interest would be to make electronic drum kits for Lyra ) if not, which desktop software do you use ?

pierre

pierre

Also side question: do you know where to find good free 808 and 909 soundfounts ?

Halftone

also curious how to make your own sf2 files... a quick google and it seems like there are quite a few free ones to download also.... one of first i found was:   http://www.hammersound.net/hs_soundfonts.html

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@syrupcore mentioned it:

... "At it's core, SFZ is a really really simple format to author: a zip of one or more audio files and plain text file that tells an SFZ player what to do with them. SF2, in contrast, is a mother. Getting an SF2 authoring app on iOS continues to elude us. Getting an SFZ authoring app would be much easier. Not many apps support the format though. Until now! Thanks, Rim!

SFZs can also just be written by hand in a text editor. Can be as simple as:

     
    lovel=0
    hivel=127
    sample=my-sample.wav

for a single sound spread across the keyboard. Save it as whatever.sfz in a folder with our sample and you're done.

Or for multisampling:

     
    lovel=0
    hivel=127
    trigger=attack
    loop_mode=one_shot
    
        lokey=28 hikey=28 sample=Double Bass Pizz-028-e0.wav
   
        lokey=29 hikey=29 sample=Double Bass Pizz-029-f0.wav
    ......

You can have many groups. Those groups could have different 'opcodes' like lovel=0; hivel=30 for your soft samples, lovel=31; hivel=60 for your medium samples...

http://www.sfzformat.com/index.php?title=Main_Page describes the format pretty well. You can also download a few free ones and then look at the source. You'll need to tell your OS to open the whatever.sfz file in a text editor (like notepad or textedit, not MS Word). Then just reverse engineer the one that seems closest to what you'd like to do (replace the wav file references with your own). Put all of the wave files and your new SFZ file in the same folder and open it in your SFZ player."

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pierre

Oh ! thanks for that, I'll give it a try !

Coloobar

You can also take an existing sfz and replace the wav files with others of your choosing, so long as they have the exact same file names and are the same format.  It gets a bit more tricky for multi-velocity stuff.  

Halftone

sounds alright - so making a drum kit should be relatively easy

pierre

@Coloobar said:

You can also take an existing sfz and replace the wav files with others of your choosing, so long as they have the exact same file names and are the same format.  It gets a bit more tricky for multi-velocity stuff.  

I was about to try that ! I'll come back with some news

Will

@Halftone note that I was talking about making SFZ soundfonts, not SF2 soundfonts. A few apps support both more support sf2 only at this point.