2013/9/28 ChurchOrganist <[email protected]>
> 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 never tried them but there are a couple SFZ editors out there such as
http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html
There are also some tutorials to learn how to edit SFZ files manually.
We do know that Zerberus the SFZ player in MuseScore is still in its
infancy. There are several solid SFZ players out there that MuseScore could
use via Jack or via a plugin system.
> 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.
>
I'm pretty sure the polyphone developer is eager to get feedback and maybe
fix bugs.
>
> 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?
>
> It's up to the system... MuseScore would register as being able to open
sf2/sf3, last installed would win on Windows. But you change file
association manually at system level.
Mac and Linux are different beasts...
lasconic
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