I hope someone knows how to do this, because I would love to use the SongSmith soundset as an extra sound source next to ForteDXI. Even better, I would like to create a GM SF2 of it.
The SFZ programs are located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Songsmith\ARIA\Programs The samples are located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Songsmith\ARIA\SamplesWAV
When I drag the first (of the 74 SFZ's) 001 Acoustic Grand Piano SFZ into Sforzando I get the following report:
I think they have a unique ID for the sound bank so I added it to the PG one: Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Songsmith\ARIA\SamplesWAV to C:\Program Files\PG Music Inc\Band-in-a-Box Sounds
Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Songsmith\ARIA\Programs > All *.sfz to C:\Program Files\PG Music Inc\Band-in-a-Box Sounds\Programs Make backup copy of Band-in-a-Box Sounds.bank.xml extract below file
It works! One but... In my case. I had to install BIAB (partly) which I usually don't do because I have the EverythingPak, which I have on a separate partition. I run Windows from an SSD (which is not big enough). Anyway, I will find a way to install it onto the same partition where I have the EverythingPak on.
One last question (I almost don't dare to ask ;-)) do you know how I can convert all the SongSmiths SFZ's into one big GM Soundfont (SF2). I tried it before with a demo version of Extreme Sample Converter but I wasn't successful.
Rob
We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.
There's Polyphone http://polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/ you open all the sfz instruments into it, then on the samples add all the wavs in the wav folder. You have to Bind the wavs to the instrument, so open the instrument.sfz in notepad and look at the bottom for sample name, so if you are doing 001 Acoustic Grand Piano.sfz search in Samples for Stein, select them, right click Bind to > Acoustic Grand Piano.
I just downloaded the complete Compifont_13082016.sf2 1GB here http://pphidden.wixsite.com/compifont you can open it in Viena and see how it's put together.
Thanks Jim, this will come in handy in the future.
Pipeline,
I will try out polyphone see if I can get some decent results with it. That symbolic link tool sounds very interesting!
I'm already familiar with Viena. Used it lots of times to compile my final GM SF2 which is a combination of the Magic.SF2 and the Mysing Kite SF2. The latter I think is the best (warmest sounding) GM soundfont.
Using a good SF2 will in some cases sound better than using DXI Forte for instance, however you cannot directly render MIDI tracks in BIAB this way. I've been using the program SoundTap for this to record these tracks manually, which is quite a workaround I think.
The best thing would be to somehow convert the GM soundfount to DXI somehow (not a clue how to do this).
We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.
"The best thing would be to somehow convert the GM soundfount to DXI somehow (not a clue how to do this)." DirectiXer seems to have gone out with the Ark, I found LiveSynth Pro you can try, it's also redundant. They all say DXi went out with the Ark also.
Convert your your sample to *.gig and replace the existing in C:\Program Files (x86)\Coyote\ForteDXi\SoundBanks (backup folder first)
Not sure why they never made Coyote ForteDXi to load Soundfonts, wouldn't that be better ?????
In the MS Songsmith *.sfz you need to copy to the SamplesWAV folder then replace default_path=$A/ with default_path=/ and all the $B with wav in NotePad so Extreme Sample Converter will find the samples to convert to *.gig.
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