NAME¶

musescore-sfconvert — SoundFont conversion utility

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

The musescore-sfconvert utility converts an SF2 format SoundFont; it can compress it into SF3, encode as C for embedding into a binary, or as XML.

The options are as follows:

-a ampl

Set the pre-compression amplification to ampl (default -1.0) dB.

-c

Output C code.

-d

Dump presets.

-p p

Append p to the list of presets.

-q qual

Set the Vorbis quality to qual (default 0.3).

-s

Create a small soundfont (one instrument/preset), pan to 0.

-x

Output XML.

-z

Compress the soundfont.

The -c, -d and -z options are mutually exclusive. XML output needs -z but does not seem to compress.

CAVEATS¶

Raising the quality to 0.6 might be necessary to avoid artifacts; this however increases the size of the generated SF3 by about a third (to about fifteen percent of the SF2 size).

There is no formal specification of the SF3 format yet.