On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:25:04PM +0000, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 don't have time to contribute at the moment, but I would like to be able to create soundfonts from scripts. A commandline tool would help with that. -- Eric Dantan Rzewnicki | Systems Administrator Technical Operations Division | Radio Free Asia 2025 M Street, NW | Washington, DC 20036 | 202-530-4900 CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact network@xxxxxxxx
