How to convert SFZ and GIG soudfonts to SF2 under Linux?

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Under LMMS Linux I can only handle SF2 soundfonts, while a number of free soundfonts come in either GIG or SFZ format. I'd need to convert those two into SF2 format. How to?

EnzoR

Posted 2015-01-04T08:15:24.230

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You can use SFZ in Linux: https://www.linuxsampler.org/sfz/ SFZ is superior to SF2 if I understand correctly.

– endolith – 2016-01-26T02:07:56.610

LMMS doesn't support linuxsampler yet. – EnzoR – 2016-01-28T11:39:55.517

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Polyphone is cross-platform and will open sf2, sf3, sfz, and sfArk, and will save to sf2 or export to sfz or sf3. It's sf2-centric, though, so it doesn't support some features like sfz's round-robin.

Plogue sforzando is Windows (WINE?) or OS X, and will convert sfz to sf2, though the conversion did not work well for one thing I tested. Polyphone did a better job.

endolith

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