How to edit a SoundFont
MuseScore generates sounds using a SoundFont. If you are not happy with a sound, you may want to edit the soundfont, combine several soundfonts etc...
Of course, it's not possible to create, or edit a SoundFont using MuseScore, but several tools are specifically designed to do so. Here is a non-exhaustive list. If you use any of these tools, your feedback is welcome on the MuseScore.org forum.
| Program | Price | License | Operating systems |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viena (with one n), by Kenneth Rundt | free | Windows | |
| Vienna (with two ns), by Creative | free | Windows | |
| Polyphone | free | GPLv3 | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux |
| Swami (Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments) | free | GPLv2 | Linux, Mac OS X |
| Soundfaction | non-free | Windows | |
| Polyphontics | non-free | Mac OS X | |
| ChickenSys Constructor | non-free | Windows, Mac OS X | |
| CDXtract | non-free | Windows, Mac OS X | |
| Soundfont Librarian: This librarian is a tool to manage, edit, and customize SoundFont banks. You can load several banks each in their own Windows, then simply drag-and-drop presets from one bank into another, to custom create banks containing just the presets you want in an all new bank. Save your creation back to disk when finished. | |||
| SF2 Splitter: Simple tool that extracts instruments from SoundFont files. | Windows | ||
| Awave Studio | non-free | Windows |