[RWP] New Podcast Uploaded

[Chris Belle]

The main good thing about sf zed is that it seems to do the best job of 
converting soundfonts from multi-bank libraries.

But if I'm going to build one from scratch, I just do it by hand.

Someone on midimag has made a nice little tool for us to import samples 
and do some of the basic grunt work for sfz construction, I also use a 
vb script I modified to import samples with no opcodes, as I prefer to 
define as many of them as I can in groups.
After learning sfz, I don't see why anyone would want to mess with 
anything else for sample playback,
it's just so simple and elegant and straight forward, I remember 
struggling in the 80s to use hardware samplers and trying to figure out 
how to make things happen,
now sfz is the cat's meow.

Ive
made a bunch of instruments, and drumkits,
yes it's a bit time consuming, but anything worth while is.


On 12/6/2014 4:56 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
> That's the way I learned it.
>
>
> On 12/6/2014 3:30 PM, Tor Tollhag wrote:
>> Just started listening to that sfz podcast. It's interesting but that
>> program you use, sf zedd sounds slightly complicated.
>> Since it's text based, you could in theory start by Writing an .sfz
>> file in notepad.
>> I know this probably would be extremely basic but that's good if you
>> don't know a lot about this stuff. I would start Learning just how the
>> layout of the text works and then start doing more complicated stuff
>> after that.
>>
>>
>> 2014-12-04 10:17 GMT+01:00, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>:
>>> I like to use sf zed to convert soundfonts to sfz files,
>>> it usually get's the off_by opcodes right in drum kits,
>>> but you're better off tweaking and doing sfz files properly by hand,
>>> and there are some scripts people have written to import larger sample
>>> pools,
>>> but it's not that bad once you have a few templates around.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/3/2014 4:27 PM, Ken Downey wrote:
>>>> I uploaded a new podcast to my site.
>>>> www.blindlabyrinth.com/SFZed.mp3
>>>> <http://www.blindlabyrinth.com/SFZed.mp3>
>>>> It details the building of soundfonts using the SF Zed stand-alone 
>>>> app.
>>>> There are a couple things about sf zed that are buggy, specifically
>>>> the LFO. The rate is half what it should be, but once you've got your
>>>> file how you want it, just open it in Svorzando and tweak it. Also, I
>>>> think the various envelopes don't work right in SF Zed, so they will
>>>> have to be tweaked as well in Svorzando.
>>>> Ken Downey
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