Soundfont editors....
I have a soundfont that I love. Very realistic, instrument quality is good, and the instrument sound balance is good. However, there is one thing that bothers me. They can't play for more than about 3-5 seconds depending on the instruments, I am just wondering what soundfont editors can help me with this. It is a sfz soundfont also.
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Hi,
Try Polyphone (https://sourceforge.net/projects/polyphone/) .
Just curious, which soundfont is the one you mention?
Sounds as though no loop points have been set.
If you use Polyphone's automatic loop finder, be aware that it removes all of the sample after the loop end point.
It is better to make a note of the loop points and then exit the loop finder and enter the loop points manually.
Are you talking about the SSO? Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra? I've looped most of those already, if you had a request.
In reply to Are you talking about the by Laurelin
Ooh - any chance you could let me have the loop points in some way?
In reply to Ooh - any chance you could by ChurchOrganist
Err, which ones? All of them? I also mostly did it using Viena, and taking advantage of the 'smooth loop' feature, which makes it rather better.
I've got...
Flute Solo
Flute Section
Oboe Solo
Clarinet Solo
Bassoon Solo(pretty sure this is slightly modified Ethan's bassoon)
English Horn
Contrabassoon
French Horn Solo
Most of the Tenor Trombone(I think I don't have most of the brass looped because I very rarely need long sustains from them- ditto for Piccolo and Alto Flute)
all Strings sustained
The strings were supposed to already be looped, but I think MS's sfz player is just... inadequate, so I converted a bunch of things to Sf2. And then I started adding things that were missing, and it got out of hand, so I just posted that massive thing to the forum a couple days ago. Saves me the bother of having fifty million different sf2s loaded in the synthesizer, anyway.
So it's all on there, but if you need it, I'll go and pull out the specifically SSO stuff. Do you want all of it? What are you looking for?
In reply to Err, which ones? All of them? by Laurelin
OK that's great - I'll download the soundfont.
Yes the incarnation of Zerberus in MuseScore 2.0.3 is very basic, but hpfmn's work on it for Google Summer of Code mean that the next version of MuseScore will have a properly functioning SFZ player. It's available to play with form the Nightlies, but I haven't had time to download and do so yet.
The idea is to begin compiling an SFZ library specifically for MuseScore.
SFZ is just so much more flexible than SF2, and you can compress the samples without having to resort to special software.
In reply to Ooh - any chance you could by ChurchOrganist
oopsie, double comment
Yes, but I usually only have problems with the brass rather than woodwinds.