[linux-audio-user] Anyone interested in helping with melotron

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 08:51AM -0800, Sean Bolton spake thus:
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Mark Constable wrote:
> >Along these lines, and this would help Julien, is anyone
> >aware of any shell tools to deal with sf2 soundfonts ?
> >
> >I would be very interested in cooperating with anyone else
> >that may be able to help build a set of command line sf2
> >extraction and rebuild tools.
> 
> Takashi Iwai included two utilities in awesfx 0.4.2, one which
> dumped the metadata of a SF2 to a text file, and another
> which compiled the (possibly modified) text file and original
> SF2 into a new SF2.  With it you could make minor edits
> to a soundfont from the command line.  As-is, it's not going
> to help build a soundfont from single wave files, but it
> might be a great starting point for building such a tool.

Thanks for pointing this out - it really will be a good place to
start.

It has a lot of what we need, and is really only missing the ability
to work with individual sound files, like you say.

Thanks again
 
> -Sean
> 
> 

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