NAME¶
sf2extract - Extract samples from SoundFont version 2 (.sf2) files.
SYNOPSIS¶
sf2extract [ -v ] SF2FILE DESTDIR [SAMPLENR] [ [SAMPLENR] ... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Extract samples from SoundFont version 2 (.sf2) files. All extracted samples
will be written in .wav format. You must at least supply name of the .sf2
input file and an output path where all extracted samples should be written
to. By default sf2extract extracts all samples contained in the
SoundFont file, even if they are not linked by any instrument in the .sf2
file, but you can also extract only particular samples by supplying a list of
samples indices at the end of the command line. You can use the
sf2dump(1) tool to see the list of available samples and their sample
indices of a SoundFont file.
Stereo Samples: Note that stereo samples are always stored
as pair of separate two mono samples with Sound Font files. Keep that in
mind when selecting individual samples by index. sf2dump(1) shows you
which (mono) sample is linked to which other (mono) sample to form a stereo
sample pair. sf2extract automatically detects if one of the samples
is part of a stereo pair and automatically extracts the two as combined
interleaved stereo sample data to the output .wav file. Hence it is
sufficient to pass the index of one of the two (mono) samples of each stereo
pair you want to extract.
OPTIONS¶
- SF2FILE
- filename of the input SoundFont file
- DESTDIR
- output path where all samples should be extracted to
- SAMPLENR
- optional index of sample(s) to be exclusively extracted
- -v
- print version and exit
Author¶
Application and manual page written by Christian Schoenebeck
<cuse@users.sf.net>
