SFZ is supposed to be a more powerful format, but I have yet to find a graphical editor. As far as I can tell you still have to configure an SFZ file by means of writing scripts, which is not very conducive to the creative flow :)
I had a look at Polyphone on my Windows 8 system. Unfortunately all the parameters are squashed together so they're unreadable, and the virtual keyboard is so small as to be virtually unusable. I will try installing it to a Windows XP system to see if that improves matters. Your proposal regarding the installation of soundfonts sounds excellent - being able to double click a soundfont file to install into MuseScore would be a great boon. The only issue would be whether Viena or Polyphone was already installed on the system and allocated as the default application for opening soundfont files - would there be a way of overriding this if MuseScore was already running? Michael lasconic wrote > About soundfonts. > > 1/ The current master also has primitive support for SFZ... > > 2/ SF2 tech is old but still working. There is even a recent effort to > create a SF2 editor http://polyphone.fr Version 1.0 released beginning of > september 2013 > > 3/ About installing soundfont more easily. I can see two ways. > * Make MuseScore recognize sf2/sf3 file types when double click or > dragged. > A dialog box could ask the user if he wants to "install" the soundfont to > be use with MuseScore. If yes, the soundfont would be copied in the > soundfont directory, and then available in Display->Synthesizer. Currently > MuseScore supports several soundfont folders. I would propose to support > only one custom folder and the hardcoded one. The soundfont would be > copied > in the custom one. > * We are currently working on something to let users download updated and > new translations of the MuseScore UI and install them directly from within > MuseScore. I can imagine it would be a nice thing to have the same > infrastructure for soundfonts. > > lasconic ----- Regards Michael -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Aeolus-Organ-Synth-tp7578364p7578396.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
