Basic SFZ player

[Yuroun]

My try to create someting with the Multi Samples component.

The ADSR on the mainscreen is the main ADSR and does not represent the ADSR defined in the SFZ.

[attic]

Nice bass sound. I tried this and immediately started jamming out the bass line from Owner Of a Lonely Heart (Yes Cover). Nice to see your getting the sample players together. I did notice one odd thing but I don't think it would effect the way someone would normally use this bass sound, when you put the drop down to continuous mode and have a very small loop length it only loops in the lower keys and allows a small bit of the unlooped bass to pass through. I will have to check to see if this issue exists in the standard sfz module. I think you and I have similar goals with Synthmaker, let me know if you need any help or possible colab on something large. Anyhow Nice job.

[Yuroun]

Nice bass sound. I tried this and immediately started jamming out the bass line from Owner Of a Lonely Heart (Yes Cover)

Yes I know. Yes with Jon Anderson. It was a big hit when I was 15

. Nice to see your getting the sample players together. I did notice one odd thing but I don't think it would effect the way someone would normally use this bass sound,

The bass sound was just an example. It was originally a public domain sf2. I converted it with ESC to sfz.

when you put the drop down to continuous mode and have a very small loop length it only loops in the lower keys and allows a small bit of the unlooped bass to pass through. I will have to check to see if this issue exists in the standard sfz module.

That's in the sfz module. I did not much change in that high level mod.

I think you and I have similar goals with Synthmaker, let me know if you need any help or possible colab on something large. Anyhow Nice job.

It's not bad for someone who's just playing with SM for 2 weeks

I think that we have both the same goals. Mine goal i's creating a sample player so I can sell high quality sound sets independant from a thirdparty product like Kontakt or something else. That player must have enough effects and filters with a lot of modulation options. Something like a mix between Alchemy, Absynth and Kontakt.

[mccy]

GREAT; GREAT; GREAT!!!!!
Finally somethin to drop my SFZs and making instruments out of them!!! I just could not get the Multi Sample module working until now but now with this I got it, why! Thanks, so simple & me being so damn stupid.

Thank you!

Martin

[Yuroun]

GREAT; GREAT; GREAT!!!!!
Finally somethin to drop my SFZs and making instruments out of them!!! I just could not get the Multi Sample module working until now but now with this I got it, why! Thanks, so simple & me being so damn stupid.

Thank you!

Martin

Yes, it's that simple

[mccy]

But oh, just checked performance. One needs a mighty machine to run that... when playing several voices.

[Yuroun]

But oh, just checked performance. One needs a mighty machine to run that... when playing several voices.

Hmmm I had no problem with performance and my machine isn't that mighty. This player uses 32 voices. You can turn that back in the voices module. The performance will increase.

Another tip: don't use long releases.

[cyto]

Am I missing something? I couldn't get any of these controls to work...

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-cyto

[Yuroun]

Am I missing something? I couldn't get any of these controls to work...

sfzControls.png

-cyto

It works here. E.g. I can set panning to 100% left with -100.

[attic]

@cyto Could you tell us what parts exactly don't work for you? I would like to make sure this doesn't have any bugs. This seems to work well on my machine.

But oh, just checked performance. One needs a mighty machine to run that... when playing several voices.

@mccy What are you getting for CPU usage in windows task manager? Also what are the specs on your machine.

@Yuroun Could you tell me what size those individual .wav files are and what are their total size? Also are they 44, 48 khz files? I think we should check to see if performance is better for 44, 48 also what the machine is running at during playback IE ASIO or Direct Sound, khz and buffer size on the soundcards. That way we have some info to look at optimizing the Sfz system.

[Yuroun]

From my experience with sfz files is that the wave file used, most not exceed the 15 mb limit for a total set.

On my own machine i had no problems with playing and loading large files with the multi sample player. My machine is a 3 years old dual core laptop with 3 gig of ram. I tested it with Synthmaker itself...

The orginal files in this player are taken from an old sf2 file. So the samples are 16 bits @44.1 Khz. They are small. I have no idea how much as I don't have the anymore.

when I have the time I test what the player can handle...

[attic]

I will run it through some tests also. We can compare results. I have a three year old 3Ghz Intel DualCore with 8gig of ram.

[cyto]

@cyto Could you tell us what parts exactly don't work for you? I would like to make sure this doesn't have any bugs. This seems to work well on my machine.

Literally none of those controls in that panel worked. I would type in a number or select an entry from the list and nothing would change in the sound or in the mapping. I should note that when I tested it, it was just on my little netbook and only with the PC keyboard (so not the most hi-tech of environments), and I was just using the bass sfz that came with it.

-cyto

[Yuroun]

@cyto Could you tell us what parts exactly don't work for you? I would like to make sure this doesn't have any bugs. This seems to work well on my machine.

Literally none of those controls in that panel worked. I would type in a number or select an entry from the list and nothing would change in the sound or in the mapping. I should note that when I tested it, it was just on my little netbook and only with the PC keyboard (so not the most hi-tech of environments), and I was just using the bass sfz that came with it.

-cyto

You're right. I can't edit them either. It worked while I was working on this. I must have delete something while I was changing the player.

I didn't test the edit mode, because that part isn't what I need for a simple SFZ player.

[Yuroun]

But oh, just checked performance. One needs a mighty machine to run that... when playing several voices.

When I press a 6 chord and have a 5 meg sample bank loaded, everything works fine then. Within synthmaker I get 7,7% cpu. That's not bad.