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Message: [quote author=Xenoneo link=msg=31573 date=1318023342] Alright, I'll edit the first post as I learn more into a step by step FAQ. I opened a real can of worms by delving into this subject. Trying to find relevant information has been extremely frustrating at times. Most of the information I found was involved with musicians talking about samples for their keyboards, which usually revolved around soundbanks, some of which sold for $500-$1000. When I got onto the subject of creating my own soundfont by combining samples from other sf2s, the subject matter got even more convoluted. Software used for it was usually exclusive to soundblaster type soundcards, cost money to use, involved the wrong file extension, was made from other sound file types, or was only good for playing music. Moments ago, I finally stumbled across what I was looking for. The program is called 'Viena', which is confusing because there is another audio edit program called 'Vienna' which only supports some sound cards. (extra N) Viena is a free standalone program which allows you to open up to 4 .sf2 files, play each sample on an included keyboard to test the sound, and has the ability to replace specific samples within a soundfont and save them as a seperate sf2 file. description: (second topic) [url=http://www.synthfont.com/]http://www.synthfont.com/[/url] download: Viena (V0.910) http://www.synthfont.com/Downloads.html PSA: careful about plagiarism Now if there's one thing I learned while researching redundant information while trying to learn how to make a new soundfont, it is this... Do not openly distribute soundfonts which you made by simply combining other soundfonts and call it your own, unless you want to be known world wide as a thief. Making a soundfont from scratch is extremely complicated and a labor of love which can be grueling. The makers of these soundfonts do not take kindly to plagiarism, so if you do share combined soundfonts cite every single original soundfont. Not including soundfonts which cost money goes without saying. Linking to free soundfont websites or describing how you made a good one is the better way to go about it. Anyways, now that I have all the information I was looking for I'll start working on the original post. Everything is much simpler now that I have cut the fat out of how to do this. I'll probably take out most of the journey storytelling and separate it into sections like: installing bassmidi and making dosbox work with it, downloading soundfonts, and combining soundfonts. Once I dig through all these bookmarks I made, I'll start on it. [/quote]
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