[Rwp] free Sfz script reborn

[Chris Belle]

Sound fonts are a flat file format which it's own proprietary language 
for dealing with layers, and envelopes and sample playback functions, 
was the old creative labs, emu
thing from the 90s.
Sfz was invented later on, and is an open standard which uses  wav 
files, also can support ogg and sforzando can do flack files, you 
express controls and methods for controling your sample playback via 
opcodes, which is in a standard text file, with opcodes, human readable 
and fairly easy to learn,
you can build your sample library.
Synths like dimension pro, rapture, sessiond;rummer 3, all the cakewalk 
stuff in essence, uses this great open standard.
A lot of other synth manufacturers implement sfz, this is kind of like 
the linux of the sampling world, each manufacturer can do it's own 
thing, but they all support a base level of compatibility.
I love creating sfz instruments,
as it's
not limited
like sf2 is, you can use way more memory, and what ever sample rate and 
bit depth you want, and being that sfz files are text files, if you 
learn how to deal with sfz you can take control of your sample playback.
and since you only load up what you need, your memory is handled a lot 
more efficiently.


On 5/1/2016 9:56 AM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
> i thought sound fonts were what the SF in SFZ stood for, so what’s the difference between SFZ and sound fonts?
>
>> On May 1, 2016, at 6:47 AM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> Sforzando is a more modern sfz tool which supports the later opcodes, and is also more accessible.
>> But it does not support sf2 as well, especially multi-tembral ones.
>> Also the opcode to differentiate by midi channel doesn't seem to work for what ever reason, but anything using the level 2 opcodes will work better with the sforzando.
>> I like to use sforzando for pure sfz files, and sfz player for sound fonts, ancient as that format is, there are still some good sounds to be used there.
>>
>>
>> On 4/30/2016 9:56 PM, Rod alcidonis, Esquire wrote:
>>> What's the difference between that and the Sforzando?
>>>
>>>
>>> Rod Alcidonis, Esq.
>>> 215-821-6015
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Belle Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 8:31 PM To: Reapers Without Peepers Subject: Re: [Rwp] free Sfz script reborn
>>> Now as someone who did a lot of tinkering with ahk not so much lately but a couple years ago, I am really curious how you managed to pull that one off.
>>> Did you use text and color matches and some sort of search feature?
>>> Because the controls are going to show up in a different place in each DAW,
>>> I always just used cordinates for the child window
>>> and adjusted for each situation.
>>> I haven't looked at the abilities of autohotkey lately,
>>> and what's improved,
>>> but I should take some time and revisit and see what I can do.
>>> Thanks for this nice gift.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/30/2016 4:51 PM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>> Here I am with a new script for the sfz player. The news is that this ahk script will work in Reaper, both native and bridge, Sonar and VstHost, so one script, three daws. The way this script has been designed gives us the possibility to make the vst work in any daw.
>>>> You can download it from
>>>> http://access4music.com/file/sfzAccess.zip.
>>>> On www.access4music.com you will also find all of the scripts that we're currently developing, all of them redesigned to work in any daw and operating system, starting from windows 7. I couldn't test any script on win xp, but you are welcome to do so.
>>>> Happy reaping.
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Gianluca from Italy
>>>> SkypeID: gianluca8815 or access4music
>>>>
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