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MUSESCORE-SFCONVERT(1) | General Commands Manual | MUSESCORE-SFCONVERT(1) |
NAME¶
musescore-sfconvert
—
SoundFont conversion utility
SYNOPSIS¶
musescore-sfconvert |
[-cdsxz ] [-a
ampl] [-p
p] [-q
qual] infile
[outfile] |
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.
March 5, 2018 | Debian |