#.SF2 FILES HOW TO#

Linux Sampler also looks promising, and seems to be the only native option in Linux. Recently, PlogueвЂ™s sforzando is gaining popularity because it is free and thus encourages many SFZ developers (including myself). Cakewalk, the company that introduced SFZ, should have the best support and they have Dimension and Rapture, among others.

However, to take full advantage of the SFZ specification, it is best to use dedicated software that recognize many of the SFZ вЂњopcodesвЂќ. There are many software that can use SFZ files.

More about SFZ programming and opcodes here:, , Cakewalk Synthesizers, Sound on Sound.

In the context of this article samples are the individual note recordings contained in 1 file, for example a sample can be a file named вЂњpiano-c4.wavвЂќ.

#.SF2 FILES HOW TO#

SFZ is similar to a programming or markup language, wherein special keywords known as вЂњopcodes 2вЂќ instruct the SFZ player how to play with the samples. Other things such as tuning adjustments, ADSRs, filters, and sound behavior at different note velocities can also be encoded in the SFZ file. At the basic level, it tells which audio files correspond to which played notes. This text file contains instructions on how to use the audio samples. As I intend to use the SFZ format for my samples, I would like to explain a little more about this really nice and neat sampled instrument library format.ДЄn SFZ file itself is a text file, separate from the sound samples 1 that form the whole instrument.

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