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With this template, SFZ is as expressive as any other format. It has all the features needed for future-proofing one's sample instrument library. And one need not lose their sample collections the next time a sampler company goes out of business, kills their product, or encrypts their libraries.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio #SFZ

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With this template, SFZ is as expressive as any other format. It has all the features needed for future-proofing one's sample instrument library. And one need not lose their sample collections the next time a sampler company goes out of business, kills their product, or encrypts their libraries.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio #SFZ

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Now anyone can easily write expressive SFZ instruments! Any user can create their basic SFZ file, and then extend it with powerful expression without needing to know how to code any of that powerful expression!

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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Now anyone can easily write expressive SFZ instruments! Any user can create their basic SFZ file, and then extend it with powerful expression without needing to know how to code any of that powerful expression!

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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This is exactly what has been done! GitHub developer kinwie quietly created templates for this and stored them for everyone in GitHub at this URL:

https://github.com/kinwie/SFZ-Templates

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This is exactly what has been done! GitHub developer kinwie quietly created templates for this and stored them for everyone in GitHub at this URL:

https://github.com/kinwie/SFZ-Templates

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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But, what if someone created a template that everyone could use? What if all a SFZ creator had to do was append this template to the top of the SFZ text file that the instrument creator defined? What if this template not only made the SFZ instrument MIDI CC capabile, but also provided GUI controls to the Sforzando or Sfizz plugin? Wouldn't this make SFZ more expressive?

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But, what if someone created a template that everyone could use? What if all a SFZ creator had to do was append this template to the top of the SFZ text file that the instrument creator defined? What if this template not only made the SFZ instrument MIDI CC capabile, but also provided GUI controls to the Sforzando or Sfizz plugin? Wouldn't this make SFZ more expressive?

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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If when creating new instruments in SFZ format, the creator of the instrument doesn't know how to add the needed information to make the SFZ file capable of expression, then the instrument remains unexpressive...lifeless. This is not the fault of the SFZ, but because the creator doesn't have the programming skills.

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If when creating new instruments in SFZ format, the creator of the instrument doesn't know how to add the needed information to make the SFZ file capable of expression, then the instrument remains unexpressive...lifeless. This is not the fault of the SFZ, but because the creator doesn't have the programming skills.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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There is one drawback that people complain about with SFZ, and today I want to share a discovery I have made that resolves this one problem. Most SFZ instruments are unexpressive. This is not because of the format itself, but rather it is because of the difficulty of adding MIDI CC information into the SFZ instrument file.

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There is one drawback that people complain about with SFZ, and today I want to share a discovery I have made that resolves this one problem. Most SFZ instruments are unexpressive. This is not because of the format itself, but rather it is because of the difficulty of adding MIDI CC information into the SFZ instrument file.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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SFZ has many advantages for future-proofing:

* There are many available SFZ parsers--most of which are open source

* There are many sets of tools for editing and creating SFZ files

* The Samples themselves are available

* SFZ can be imported into many samplers

etc...etc...etc...

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SFZ has many advantages for future-proofing:

* There are many available SFZ parsers--most of which are open source

* There are many sets of tools for editing and creating SFZ files

* The Samples themselves are available

* SFZ can be imported into many samplers

etc...etc...etc...

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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After those things, the format itself is the most important. I believe the most useful format for long term storage is: SFZ.

Back in 2023, I laid out my arguments for SFZ in a thread at KVRAudio:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8691650#p8691650

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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After those things, the format itself is the most important. I believe the most useful format for long term storage is: SFZ.

Back in 2023, I laid out my arguments for SFZ in a thread at KVRAudio:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8691650#p8691650

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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Now honestly, when it comes right down to it, the most important thing for your sample collection are the samples. The second most important thing is having each sample properly looped and labeled with useful information on what the sample is and what it is to be used for.

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Now honestly, when it comes right down to it, the most important thing for your sample collection are the samples. The second most important thing is having each sample properly looped and labeled with useful information on what the sample is and what it is to be used for.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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I did some searching and spoke with Jürgen, developer of ConvertWithMoss, and found a handful of sample formats that keep the samples open and available:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9036638#p9036638

TAL Sampler, TX16w, Akai Keygroups, also Bitwig Multisamples and DecentSampler, along with SFZ.

These are among the best formats for keeping a long term sample collection.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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I did some searching and spoke with Jürgen, developer of ConvertWithMoss, and found a handful of sample formats that keep the samples open and available:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9036638#p9036638

TAL Sampler, TX16w, Akai Keygroups, also Bitwig Multisamples and DecentSampler, along with SFZ.

These are among the best formats for keeping a long term sample collection.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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Also, some formats, even if they do have the ability to include stereo samples, end up summing them to mono--for example, Soundfonts (sf2). Furthermore, sf2 doesn't allow for round-robins, and other nice essentials. So, I one can safely rule out sf2 as the ideal format.

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Also, some formats, even if they do have the ability to include stereo samples, end up summing them to mono--for example, Soundfonts (sf2). Furthermore, sf2 doesn't allow for round-robins, and other nice essentials. So, I one can safely rule out sf2 as the ideal format.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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For example, monolithic formats don't give easy access to the samples. One doesn't want to be stuck with the inability to access the samples, or else the sample collection is useless. So formats that exclusively use monolithic formats are not appropriate.

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For example, monolithic formats don't give easy access to the samples. One doesn't want to be stuck with the inability to access the samples, or else the sample collection is useless. So formats that exclusively use monolithic formats are not appropriate.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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I've done a lot of thinking, and believe I have determined the best format for future-proofing your sample collection. Obviously, the original sampler format that the samples were created for would be best, but that's not always possible.

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I've done a lot of thinking, and believe I have determined the best format for future-proofing your sample collection. Obviously, the original sampler format that the samples were created for would be best, but that's not always possible.

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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There are several open sampler formats. By open, I don't mean open source, but rather, that that the specs are open so that users can create tools to work with the formats. For example, Jürgen Moßgraber's priceless open source tool: ConvertWithMoss

https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/ConvertWithMoss/ConvertWithMoss.html

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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There are several open sampler formats. By open, I don't mean open source, but rather, that that the specs are open so that users can create tools to work with the formats. For example, Jürgen Moßgraber's priceless open source tool: ConvertWithMoss

https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/ConvertWithMoss/ConvertWithMoss.html

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio #WindowsAudio #MacAudio #Music #Samplers #Audio

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🎧 Dive into the world of #MacAudio with my latest YouTube video!
✅ Spotlight on: Sound Source - an amazing tool by Rogue Amoeba for top-tier audio control.
✅ Now featuring: AU Sound Isolation plugin - isolates your voice from any background noise.
🎙️ Perfect for podcast recording or noise-free Zoom meetings!
🎬 YouTube link:https://youtu.be/sGurLYu2ClY

@BillHallSonora Oh – I assume you'd just use a web browser to do the download?

Presumably it'd only get weird if you tried to play the FLAC file using Apple's "Music" application and it was all, "FLAC? FLAC you!"

...but then, for the simple task of playing one FLAC file on your computer, you could just bust out the essential VLC – which I believe every desktop computer should have installed on it.

Mac VLC download page:
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

#FLAConMac #MacAudio

@BillHallSonora

1/ Where are they coming from, and where do they need to go?

The only Toast I'm familiar with is Roxio Toast, the CD (or other optical disc) burning software, which seems unrelated to flinging files around. So perhaps you're referring to a different toast I'm unaware of.

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