3 Aug
2010
3 Aug
'10
10:14 a.m.
Hi all,
This is probably a dumb question, but is there a way to extract sound
fonts from (for example) a Korg keyboard? I like the sheer range of
sounds my Korg has, but would like to record in MIDI rather than as
audio for ease of editing. Once its in MIDI it would be convenient to
have the Korg's sound fonts available on my machine so I wouldn't need
the Korg around to playback.
I'm guessing it probably can't be done, but figure it can't hurt to ask.
Thanks.
3 Aug
3 Aug
1:16 p.m.
Hello Ng,
If I'm not mistaken, Most keyboards with internal sounds take their sounds
from a ROM chip, with only a few megabytes of storage space in them for
samples (admittedly the 'Big 3' workstations have got anywhere from 300MB to
1GB of sample ROM onboard these days last time I checked). Additionally,
they're not in Soundfont format either, but rather a proprietary format that
can only be read by the keyboard's embedded OS. If you really needed those
sounds on your computer, I guess you could sample/loop them yourself, but
that'd probably be quite time consuming! On the other hand, you 'could' just
plug in a midi cable into the keyboard and just sequence like that!
Tl;Dr: No. :-)
Andrew.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
This is probably a dumb question, but is there a way to extract sound
fonts from (for example) a Korg keyboard? I like the sheer range of
sounds my Korg has, but would like to record in MIDI rather than as
audio for ease of editing. Once its in MIDI it would be convenient to
have the Korg's sound fonts available on my machine so I wouldn't need
the Korg around to playback.
I'm guessing it probably can't be done, but figure it can't hurt to ask.
Thanks.
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Hi!
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is probably a dumb question, but is there a way
to extract sound
fonts from (for example) a Korg keyboard? I like the sheer range of
sounds my Korg has, but would like to record in MIDI rather than as
audio for ease of editing. Once its in MIDI it would be convenient to
have the Korg's sound fonts available on my machine so I wouldn't need
the Korg around to playback.
I think there's a program for doing roughly what you want to do. Not exactly
though.
What you do is "sample" every key in the keyboard, (at various velocities
etc if needed),
and then trigger the samples when you need to playback.
Linky: http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/
I've never used this program, I'm not the author, and I dont know if it
works well, but
it seems it may be of use to you. Cheers, -Harry
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