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

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 04:07PM -0500, John Check spake thus:
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:51 am, Sean Bolton wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > -Sean
> 
> Sounds like all we'd need for comping together instruments though.

swami also uses a library (packaged handily seperately) called
libinstpatch that seems to be just what we need: a library for
manipulating SF2 files.  I'm about to have a closer look, but it seems
like this will make a nice back-end and will make this project
practically an accessible implementation of swami. 

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