Trying to use Polyphone to create or alter soundfonts
I have been trying to use Polyphone to create or modify soundfonts. The version for MacOS X seems to be unusable - as all the important command buttons appear now to be in Japanese or Chinese. Has anyone had any luck with this?
I can cope with a significant number of European languages, but I haven't a clue about this language.
I don't want to get involved with making a new version from scratch.
If there's another tool which will do similar things but doesn't have this languge issue I'd be glad to know of it.
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Isn't there a menu in the upper right that you can open where you can change the language?
In reply to Isn't there a menu in the… by bobjp
There may well be - but I can't make any sense of it at all. It might be a menu which has an offering such as "Click on this and your computer will self destruct in 5 seconds" for all I know!
See attached.
In reply to There may well be - but I… by dave2020X
Use the (English) manual for Polyphone:
https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/documentation/en/manual/index
Navigate to the settings dialog window and change the language in the "Interface" subsection.
In reply to Use the (English) manual for… by AndreasKågedal
I downloaded the English manual yesterday. It still doesn't help a lot as I have no idea where to go in what I'm looking at. Maybe it is an approach which could eventually work - even if I changed to a language I can recognise, and maybe understand, which is about ten (10) - and then from there I could change to English.
I can't even recognise what the "Interface" subsection looks like.
Languages such as Finnish are hopeless for me - though other European languages - except perhaps Hungarian - are not so bad. Languages with symbols I barely recognise - such as Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Persian are a complete no-no.
I attached a copy of what I see in my earlier post.
In reply to I downloaded the English… by dave2020X
This is what I found when quickly looking through the manual:
The main window ("home screen") is described here:
https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/documentation/en/manual/index
There is a "Settings" button at the bottom, indicated with an icon representing "gears".
Further down on that page you will find a link to the page where the settings are described.
https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/documentation/en/manual/settings
There you need to find the "Interface" section. It is not super-clear from the manual how to do that, but it is listed as the second section if I understand correctly. And there, using the top-most choice box you can select language. In the worst case you will have to try a few of the choice boxes until you find the one for changing the language.
In reply to This is what I found when… by AndreasKågedal
Actualy It was helpful - and I now have a version working with American English. That program could do with some sort of Panic button, to allow users to reconfigure easily. I thought it might have been related to other programs recently used within MacOS, but in this case it wasn't. On a previous occasion I downloaded a program which originated in Brazil, and then after that some newly installed programs came up with Portuguese command buttons.
Thanks - so all I have to do now is figure out how to use it. I have some .sfz files which I think don't work directly with MuseScore - or at least not in the Fluid Synthesiser, and I've not managed so far with Zerberus, so I may need to convert those to Soundfont .sf2 files.