What are your favourite sfz Soundfonts?
Hi,
as some of you might now I'm working on Zerberus (the sfz player) and I just posted a [blog Post](https://musescore.org/en/user/527826/blog/2016/06/20/zerberus-sound-exa…) which contains some examples. While I was experimenting with examples I also found some mistakes about the release. So I think experimenting with different soundfonts is a good way to find bugs. It also will help me to find out what else might be a good thing to add to Zerberus (opcode wise).
So let me know what you think might be interesting or what you use a lot!
Comments
http://www.plogue.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=7090
In reply to http://www.plogue.com/phpBB3/ by Isaac Weiss
@Isaac, those are your favourites? You tried them with Zerberus? I didn't try yet, but I would guess they can't be use with free software and their samples and or sfz files are encoded. Am I wrong?
In reply to @Isaac, those are your by [DELETED] 5
I have no idea how to use Zerberus, but it sounds very good in sforzando: http://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando/ I think they would be entirely standard SFZ.
In reply to I have no idea how to use by Isaac Weiss
It seems the sound samples are flac files, not encoded indeed and SFZ files are text files too. Not sure they only use standard opcodes.
Regarding zerberus, it should be similar to using a SF2 soundfont. Go to Synthesizer, choose zerberus, pick a sfz file, then go to mixer and assign the instrument.
In reply to It seems the sound samples by [DELETED] 5
Unfortunately, that hasn't worked for me so far. Or rather, it works, but it doesn't yield any sound.
In reply to Unfortunately, that hasn't by Isaac Weiss
Even for salamander or for SSO ?
In reply to Even for salamander or for by [DELETED] 5
I just re-downloaded SSO, and it does work! Note very convenient—I wish there was a way to load all the SFZs in the folder at once—but it works.
I personally like Sonatina. I find it works well with Zebarus too.
http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/
Check out Patcharena's stuff as well, it is quite nice.
http://patcharena.com/tag/free-sfz-instruments/
Karoryfer probably has some of the nicest bass soundfonts out there, as well as a cello and several other things:
http://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples
Lastly, this is a long list of many free instrument samples, with a variety of formats. There are a quite a few sfz files on there that I am not familiar with, but you can check out:
http://bigcatlists.blogspot.com/2014/05/totally-free-instrument-by-type…
Hope this helps!
Just bear in mind that there is more than one incarnation of SFZ.
There is basic SFZ , there is SFZ1 which the first SFZ player by RGC audio supports, doesn't include some of the standard SFZ opcodes but also has some new ones. Then there is SFZ2 which is the version current Cakewalk synthesisers support.
But more companies such as Garritan, Native Instruments and Plogue are using SFZ as the basis of some of their products. Certainly Plogue have introduced their own opcodes which are incompatible with the mainstream format, and will only work in their player - sforzando. It's possible that Garritan also may suppor these as Sforzando is based on their Aria SFZ player.
Currently I am tending to hack my own SFZ files together. Often based on other PD soundfonts like SSO for example. This is because most of them don't meet my requirements out of the box. For example SSO contains no loop points - presumably because it uses stereo samples which are an absolute pain to loop successfully.
In reply to Just bear in mind that there by ChurchOrganist
For now, we try to keep Zerberus in the borders of SFZ2. You can read some updates
https://musescore.org/en/user/527826/blog/2016/06/26/soundfont-showcase…
https://musescore.org/en/user/527826/blog/2016/06/26/weekly-status-upda…
In reply to For now, we try to keep by [DELETED] 5
A very sensible idea IMO!