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Not only that, but I also found out it was invented by someone I both admired and respected, my old #musicdsp IRC buddy René Ceballos. First question was obviously: “Is there already an instrument format that is open, powerful, flexible enough, and future proof”? YES! And its called SFZ!. Images courtesy Plogue.ĭavid shares his introduction with CDM, which makes nice reading on what this is all about even if you don’t plan to use the sforzando player specifically:īack in 2005 when Gary Garritan gave me the task to design a complex sample playback engine, I obviously started with some homework. Drop, tweak, and publish.Ī peek inside the file format reveals a very clean, easy-to-read, logical text description of the instruments. To get you started, you can drop SF2, DLS and acidized WAV files on the UI to get automatic conversion to SFZ 2.0. We’d love to see that happen here at CDM Tower, too, so do let us know if you go after the format. Of course, the real hope is that this kick-starts sound designers using the SFZ format.

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Various Instruments from Patch Arena, Plogue and More!įree Sounds for ARIA Engine.

CR-909 Electronic Drum Machine, thanks to Analog Industries.

14 Instruments from Digital Sound Factory.

This week, in addition to sforzando, various contributors released some 171 MB of great sounds for the engine – ready to load in sforzando. This all calls for some sounds, no? You’re in luck.

Drag-and-drop conversion to SFZ 2.0 from other file formats (SF2, DLS and acidized WAV files).

Engine shared with Garritan, Plogue Chipsounds.

One instrument slot – everything at the SFZ file level.

“Advanced sample hobbyists now have a powerful tool to experiment and share instruments without relying on proprietary formats.” (I’ve never heard anyone described as an “advanced sample hobbyist” – sounds like a good hobby to start!).

Bare-bones, SFZ 2.0-compatible sample player.

The player, called sforzando, was released this week by master plug-in developer David Viens of Montreal: (See, for instance, Cakewalk and rgc:audio.)

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(Linux users will want to check out SFZ support in LinuxSampler, which is true free software.) This player is a great, ready-to-use option you can play with right now – and could likewise push the format for all compatible samplers.

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And now, there’s a free (as-in-beer) player for Mac and Windows, plus some free samples to get you going. Well, they’ve got it, in the form of a beautiful format called SFZ. Being able to create instruments for these samplers is all fine and well, but sound designers badly needed a lingua franca. Yes, there are converters, but because these samplers have different capabilities, converters cause problems. The problem has been that those formats tend to be particular to one sampler or another – just Kontakt, or just Logic’s EXS24, or just Gigastudio. When they move from defining mere sounds or samples to describing whole instruments, sound designers need file formats. “Free As In Free Me From Proprietary Formats.” If you’re ready to explore sounds – as a novice sampler user or as an advanced sound developer – SFZ brings tidings of great joy.

A bare-bones UI belies a powerful engine – and a tool that could finally jump-start sound designers embracing an open format.