On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 04:07PM -0500, John Check spake thus: > On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:51 am, Sean Bolton wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Mark Constable wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Takashi Iwai included two utilities in awesfx 0.4.2, one which > > dumped the metadata of a SF2 to a text file, and another > > which compiled the (possibly modified) text file and original > > SF2 into a new SF2. With it you could make minor edits > > to a soundfont from the command line. As-is, it's not going > > to help build a soundfont from single wave files, but it > > might be a great starting point for building such a tool. > > > > -Sean > > Sounds like all we'd need for comping together instruments though. swami also uses a library (packaged handily seperately) called libinstpatch that seems to be just what we need: a library for manipulating SF2 files. I'm about to have a closer look, but it seems like this will make a nice back-end and will make this project practically an accessible implementation of swami. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
