On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:06 pm, Mark Constable wrote: > Julien Claassen wrote: > > At http://freepats.opensrc.org there is a mellotron sample in the flac Note on the topic of "Mellotron". Forgive me if you know this. Mellotrons are basically a tape loop for every key and pressing said key drops a playback head on the tape. It's a primitive analog sampler, if you will. > > format. I'm very interested in this sound. I'd like to see it in a > > soundfont, so it can be used with fluidsynth. Unfortunately I only can > > convert this sample to the .wav or .raw format and split the different > > samples from one another. The actual soundfont creation (with swami) I > > can't do. Would anyone be interested in this kind of project? > I'll have a look and see if I can get it into a soundfont via Smurf. > I'm sorry I can't help you directly Julien but smurf just > crashes on me after a few minutes and I've never been able > to figure out how to use it anyway, and swami doesn't exist > as a Gentoo package. > > > As said I'd convert and split the flac file and do, what else I can, > > but for the final swami-touch, I'd need some help, because I'm blind. I'm > > looking forward to hear from someone! > > Along these lines, and this would help Julien, is anyone > aware of any shell tools to deal with sf2 soundfonts ? > > I would be very interested in cooperating with anyone else > that may be able to help build a set of command line sf2 > extraction and rebuild tools. > That would be most useful combined with a repository and web frontend for comping individual instruments into larger sets. > --markc
