sforzando soundfont archives work with SFIZZ! Just download, copy the archive over to the Zynthian (don’t use the gui) into the sfz softfont directory, untar or unzip it! It works! I just installed the Bear_Sax archive without doing anything in polyphone! This opens up a whole new set of HIGH QUALITY soundfonts. I have not done exhaustive testing with my EWI yet.
Just testing with my midi keyboard and pads for now.
I have a question. I am trying to use the midi-fx multichord with a sfz harmonica soundfont. Chords are played but they are sustained. I can’t upload the soundfont, it’s too big. I’ll share the font by google drive later. Has anyone ran into this with multichord ? Do I need to add another MIDI-FX in parallel to fix it ?
Hi @Jerryn. I authored multi-chord. Well you describe the issue in more detail? You say it sustains. Do you mean that notes persist indefinitely? The code is hosted on GitHub so you could submit a bug report.
The notes are sustained for 30 seconds and stop. A panic all notes off isn’t required. It works with sf2 instruments, and worked with sfz. I just found a new high sample rate harmonica and was trying it with sfizz. Without multichord the notes on/off works fine. With multichord the behavior is like I am pressing a sustain peddle for 30 seconds. I didn’t think this could be considered a bug yet because I have only seen this with the new harmonica sfz. Later tonight I will post a link to the soundfont so you can try it. Maybe there’s a problem with the soundfont.
And SquidPipes ( bagpipes ) It would be cool If I can play some AC / DC using the EWI for controlling the SquidPipes. My son plays guitar, he’s got a small band… for fun bass, drums, and two guitars. It would be cool if I take out the EWI and play SquidPipes
I followed the guidance in this thread for the update in this thread.
Sfizz actually works GREAT
I started to play around with multichord and just by chance I wanted to use multichord with
harmonica and SquidPipes. It works with just about everything else I tried LOL
If anyone hasn 't examined the karoryfer.squidpipes in the sforzando player, it makes an interesting test case: The 3 diffferent programs each has a different set of controls and a different SFZ version requirement. The sforzando info lists the SFZ level.
01-squidpipes.sfz SFZ Level 2 with ARIA Extension - (ARIA is 57% implemented)
02-squidotron.sfz SFZ Level 2
03-squynth.sfz - SFZ Level 3 - (Level 3 nor even referenced in the Sfizz implementation notes)
03-squynth has the most complex controls: (I’m not finding SFZ v3 specs)
sforzando player is not happy with the 2011 Harmonica files.
2 of 3 don’t make sound …
Harmonica Vibrato has an extreme square wave modulation.
Harmonica Vel Switch errors:
<#18> Unknown Opcode: amplfo_freqccnan=0
<#40> Unknown Opcode: amplfo_freqcc&.&=0
Looks like Sfizz has the edge in this case.
Squidpipes and Harmonica work fine on the Zynthian. With a midi keyboard you can make it sound like bagpipes… playing chords manually. Tonight I will try it with the EWI. Today I am driving out to my r/c clubs field and flying a few of the models I built
After the update when switching to the sfizz repo I reinstalled sfizz with the Zynthian recipe, as stated in the thread. Also I am using a combo of the testing and sfizz repos. Testing where sfizz doesn’t apply.
Ahh! My morning coffee kicked in. I remember now! I ran into this and thought it was due to me booting and running my Zynthian entirely from ssd. I updated envars and Zynthian sys boot config files, and disabled usb automount. I thought that the reason why the sound files didn’t appear was that I missed an envar requirement change. As a quick fix I just copied the SFZ data to zynthian-my-data/soundfotns/sfz , and it worked.
I reinstalled sfizz and am getting the same error. it looks like it could be an error in the sfizz engine python code. I am too busy barrowing 3.5 tonnes of hardcore today to diagnose. Maybe @jofemodo could check for this error?
Yay! I got it working (on testing). Maybe I can look at the issue with multi-chord… but not today - I am going to a festival! Yes - lockdown is breaking and we can go outside and hear live music again. Blessed be the day!
Tried to upload the Harmonica.tar.gz via webconf but got error: Can’t install file: Destiny is not a SFZ bank!
[Edit] User error - I needed to select a bank first. (I created a new bank called Reed for this soundfont.) I am leaving my error on show here (rather than delete the post) so that others may avoid the same embarrassment!
I can’t reproduce the error you mention. Will you please raise a bug report describing you exact steps to configure and trigger the issue? Be sure to populate all the requested info in the bug report template.