Hi Raymond: Glad ya like the file.
Regarding Viena, it's really quite simple. You open a soundfont and you get this kind-of list view thingie, but you don't even hafta mess with that aspect. Just go to the File menu and use the export function. But then comes the hard part, turning the file you get into the instrument definition syntax you need. But if you just want to know what's in there, Viena works great! Regarding running the VBScript, of course I'll make it simple as possible for everyone's benefit, with the standard Windows file open dialog so you can browse to your output file, and another so you can specify where the instrument definition is supposed to go. What I'd *REALLY* like to do is talk to the creator of Viena and have him stick this right in his program as another option, but this will have to do for the nonce. On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:06:09 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Steve, >I've been looking for something like this for a long time! Viena itself >is something I never really figured out. But the export presets feature >is something I completely missed. I'd be interested in that VB script, a >million percent!. >Since I am not a programmer though, I would have no clue how to run it, >so I'd need some instructions. >Thanks for the useful stuff! > >On 2/24/2012 5:53 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> When I first started with softsynths and soundfonts and things, the >> first thing I noticed was, yeah, the sounds are great, but not so much >> the documentation as to what was actually in the soundfonts, and how >> to address them. Now, I'm not big on hunt-and-peck, tiptoing through >> hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, of program-change combinations >> to get the most out of a soundfont, and I always thought that if there >> is software to compile a soundfont out of samples and instructions as >> to how to access them, there's got to be a program that can >> deconstruct them, or at least read them and tell the human what they >> contain. Nearly a year later, I've found such a program. It's called >> Viena (not to be confused with Vienna), available from >> http://www.synthfont.com. It opens a soundfont (.SF2) file as if it >> were a word-processing document and lays everything out on the screen >> in nice accessible fashion. One of the functions on its file menu will >> export the presets list to a file of fixed-format records (once you >> strip off a few lines of header you don't need), and that file, in >> turn, can be massaged with a text editor via a simple macro to >> rearrange and reformat the individual lines a little bit. The result, >> if you do it all correctly, is the perfect stuff for QWS instrument >> definition data. Add the required two-line header at the top, a little >> documentation if you're of a mind, save it, then bring it into QWS and >> assign it as the instrument definition for your port of choice. >> >> Since Andre's big soundfont file is in wide use, and I'll bet a >> not-so-strong American dollar that most QWS and TheSoundfont users >> aren't getting nearly everything out of this file that they could, I >> submit the attached. There are over 400 sounds in this thing, all >> addressable and all with real names. So, save the attachment, drop it >> into your QWS folder, open the instruments dialog on the Options menu, >> and assign it as the instrument definition for whatever you call Onj's >> Soundfotn on your system. Then, go and enjoy yourself romping through >> the sounds. >> >> If there is sufficient interest, I will turn my editor macro into a >> VBScript file that will take the text output from Viena and convert it >> directly to a QWS instrument definition file, then give you the >> VBScript which you can then run on your own soundfont presets lists >> you make with Viena. > >To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > >for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
