Delete each one of those by selecting it, and pressing ctrl-x. In this case, just trust me that all of the samples with names that start with “II” were used by Jeu 2. In order to find out what samples were used by what preset, you could have double-clicked on the sample names, but that was before we deleted the instruments that depended on them. However, the samples that Jeu 2 used still remain and the file size is still large.ģ) To get rid of them, expand the Samples directory. That should delete it.Ģ) Now, expand the Instruments directory, left click “Petit Italien-Jeu 2” and press ctrl-x. However, since the preset Harpsichord depends on Jeu 2, you first have to delete that instrument from the preset.ġ) On the left tree, expand the Presets directory, expand the Harpsichord Preset, left click “Petit Italien-Jeu 2” and press ctrl-x. What I suggested before was to delete the second instrument Petit Italien-Jeu 2. Open up your harpsichord sf and you should see 116 samples, 2 instruments (Petit Italien-Jeu 1 and Petit Italien-Jeu 2), and 1 preset (Harpsichord) which is made up of both instruments. When you open up viena and load a soundfont, the left panel shows a tree of your samples, instruments and presets. That preset is what you finally select in your sf player. So for the drum kit example, the snare, kick, and hi-hat instruments would be collected to form at single preset, say “drum-kit 1”. Finally, instruments are arranged into “presets” or “patches”. Instruments have further divisions like “layers” and “splits”, but those aren’t really important right now.
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Here, you define what samples you want played and how you want them played when you press certain keys (or however you input your midi data). Most of the editing you’ll do to pre-made soundfonts is in the instruments. Another might be the wave samples for the hi-hat, and so on. These samples are then collected into groups called “instruments.” If we were making a drum kit soundfont, one instrument might be the 3 wave samples of our snare. For example, someone might record a snare being hit at 3 different volumes.
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If you find one for Vienna, it’s virtually the same as Viena so you should be able to use that.Ī soundfont is a collection of wave files bundled with instructions on how they should be played when midi info is passed their way.Īt its core, a sf is made up of “samples”.
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I’m sure there’s a tutorial out there somewhere.