Only first sound appears after installing sfz sound font

• Jun 24, 2016 - 08:19

I'm new to Musescore and sound fonts, so bear with me.

From looking around, it appears to me that an sfz sound font, is a text file containing playback definitions for each sound, accompanied by a corresponding series of sound files in .wav format. So am I right in thinking that when the Musescore instructions refer to adding an sfz sound font, I need to add a folder containing the sfz file and the accompanying sound files?

Also, if I put a soundfont into the user soundfonts folder, I cannot access the soundfont from the Fluid tab, but I can from the Zerberus tab in the synthesizer. Is this correct?

Also, although the sound font has many different sounds, when I access it from the mixer, I only see the name of the sound font, not any of the individual sounds. If I add this in the mixer, I appear to get only the first sound in the soundfont file.

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• Jun 24, 2016 - 21:49

I think you may be confused about the workings of an .sfz file.

Each .sfz text file is an individual sound. The .sfz text file is a file that references a series of sound files in any format (although I believe MuseScore only works with .wav). The .sfz file defines the pitch range (the range of notes) and velocity range (the range of dynamic levels) each individual sample covers, as well as creating settings for the envelopes, pan, any Low Frequency Oscillators etc. Basically the text file is a set of directions on where to find samples and what to do with them to make a single preset (or "sound").

This file is the loaded into MuseScore, which is able to use the information in the .sfz file to make that single sound.

I hope this helps clear up confusion.

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