two questions about making soundfonts
Hi --
Two questions about making soundfonts.
1. If I like the saxophone sound from soundfont #1 and the trumpet sound from soundfont #2 and the harp sound from soundfont #3, is there some way I can copy and paste, to kludge my own soundfont?
2. What software do I need, to make my own soundfont?
Thank you!
Ted Shoemaker
Comments
1. Yes
2. http://musescore.org/node/13734
If you use MuseScore 2.0 beta1, you can load several soundfonts and pick sounds from each one of them. No need to edit your own soundfont then.
In reply to 1. Yes 2. by [DELETED] 5
I've seen it mentioned that this is now possible in 2.0 b1, but haven't been able to figure it out on my own (the somewhat similar "change instruments" in the middle of a staff I know how).
Also I believe there was an old forum post that we would be able to change not just soundfonts but synthesizers in 2.0; can this be done in the middle of a piece or staff and if so how? (One of the synthesizers was strictly to support a high quality piano soundfont.)
Again many thanks to the development team for this amazing product. It's hard to believe that that something this complex, of such quality, is available at no charge.
On an unrelated note: Mr. Sabatella, were you going to write a piece to celebrate 2.0 like you did for 1.3 with that little gem "Reunion"?
In reply to explain how, please by marty strasinger
First, thanks for the kind words! I don't think 2.0 will have a default demo score - it will probably open with an empty score, as you can see in the Beta - but there are demo scores you can load from the "demos" folder, and I may yet write something new :-)
If you mean, how do you *combine* soundfonts - actually creating a new one with elements from others - the link in the post above gives good information. You don't do this using MuseScore but using a separate soundfont editor.
If you mean, how do you load multiple soundfonts, just go to View / Synthesizer and load however many you like. Then in View / Mixer, where you choose the sound for each instrument in your score, you'll see all the sounds from all the available soundfonts listed, and you can select whichever sound from whichever soundfont you like for each instrument.
In reply to explain how, please by marty strasinger
To see the soundfonts you want to use in the synthesizer menu, you have to put them in the right folder first. Usually it's something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Musescore2\Sound. Then they show up in the menu, fine and dandy.
Also, you have to turn sfArk's into sf2's and only one sfz works right now, the grand piano file that is described on the new synthesizer page, http://musescore.org/node/20818. I'm sure if you enable it it probably just shows up with the other instruments in the mixer panel.
Musescore is pretty awesome. Most free software is only worth what you pay, but this is great. Another free Open Source program that is really awesome is Blender, which can make stuff that looks like Pixar. It's just like Musescore- it's free and awesome.
In reply to Put .sf2's in the right file folder by joseph.branden…
Or you can put the soundfonts in Documents/Musescore2/soundfont
of course, that's with windows, I have no idea what it would be in a different OS. Just search Soundfont if you can't find it.
In reply to explain how, please by marty strasinger
Here is a short video showing how to define a new soundfont folder and install a soundfont in MuseScore 2.0 beta.
It is unedited and very rough and ready, and there is no narrative yet, but have a look at it if you thnk it would help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-xJqBHGuds&list=UUfTfSxGNhdQRKZmrgjABs…