sfArk Conversion
In the Soundfonts section of the Handbook, the links provided for converting sfArk files to sf2 appear not to work. Anyone know of a solution? Thank you.
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This?
http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm
or https://cloudconvert.com/sfark-to-sf2
In reply to This? http://melodymachine.co by Shoichi
Nope, tried that. Melody is dead and deprecated. The cloud convert seems to go into an endless loop that never resolves. Dead ends but thanks.
Maybe it's just a situation where "you can't get there from here" :-) Too bad because I found what sounds like a great jazz guitar font when heard in the MP3 or .wav demos on www.rhejazzpage.de but it's in sfArk format.
In reply to Nope, tried that. Melody is by juniorjet
Go to the link: http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm and download the application. Then install it and convert sfArk into sf2.
if it still works
In reply to Go to the link: by Shoichi
It turns out that utility is also available in Linux Mint 18 repository. I installed it using Software Manager, which says it is now installed, but it's nowhere to be found in order for me to use it. Doesn't show up anywhere in the Menu in Mint. I have a question posted in Linuxquestions.org to see if I can figure out how to find and run it.
In reply to It turns out that utility is by juniorjet
try command line.
In reply to try command line. by Ziya Mete Demircan
I tried running /find sfarkxtc and bash returns "no such file or directory exists".
In reply to I tried running /find by juniorjet
Maybe this is helpful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToCompressedSoundFonts
In reply to Maybe this is by kuwitt
Thanks. Tried that and the googlecode url that the command line directs to returns an "Error 404 - File not Found".
In reply to Thanks. Tried that and the by juniorjet
You wrote you've installed it from Mint repository.
Maybe you could run "find *sfark*" again (with wildcards) to see, if it is installed somewhere.
Other idea (I don't have Mint): Shows the software manager details to installed packages, where the files are placed?
In reply to You wrote you've installed it by kuwitt
I ran install again in terminal and the attached is what was returned. Sfarkxtc is there but the run command i entered came directly from the ReadMe file that i donwloaded with Sfartxtc and won't run. Any ideas?
In reply to I ran install again in by juniorjet
Why use ./ for an apt installed program? Isn't that for running a script or executable within the current working directory? Try it without the ./ If that doesn't work, you can always use Wine to run the windows executable provided on melodymachine's site.
Wine is probably already installed on your system. If not, 'sudo apt-get install wine' and then download the "old" windows binary currently located at (http://melodymachine.com/sites/melodymachine.com/files/sfark_setup.exe), cd into the download directory, and then run $wine sfark_setup.exe. If the program doesn't run after the setup, then locate it in your wine directory. Odds are it will be ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/sfArk. Go there and run $wine sfArk.exe With the Windows gui version you just File->Open the .sfark file and then press the "start" button and it will uncompress into the same directory the sfark file is located. Has worked for me. Good luck.
In reply to Why use ./ for an apt by worldwideweary
Success and partial success. You were right about the linux command line. when I dropped the ./ the utility ran fine but returned a message that it couldn't open the source file I had given it. I double checked and couldn't find an error in the file name so I have no idea what that was about.
However, I happen to have a trial copy of the proprietary souped up version of WINE on my computer so used that to uncompress the win .exe version. Worked fine and got the .sf2 file loaded into MuseScore.
And after all that, this supposed super duper whiz bang Gibson L5 jazzguitar sound is just so so and still very midi sounding. Oh well.
Thanks for your help with this.
In reply to Success and partial success. by juniorjet
http://www.deluge.co/?q=sfark-utility-download hope this helps!
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012013925/http://www.melodymachine.com…
Wayback Machine has a stable download for sfArk, as well as sfPack if anyone needs it!
In reply to https://web.archive.org/web… by WoolyLambda
thanks for posting this, very useful link.
I've just made a few conversions from sfArk files taken from thejazzpage.de. I used the sfArk SoundFont compression app from melodymachine. The converted sf2 files worked just fine in the MuseScore sinthesizer.
They also opened without problems in the Viena Soundfont editor (NOT the Vienna - two n's, from Creative Labs).