On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:25:04PM +0000, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
  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.  
I don't have time to contribute at the moment, but I would like to be
able to create soundfonts from scripts. A commandline tool would help
with that.
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