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