Re: [LAU] CLI tools to handle SF2 files?

libinstpatch is the library Josh created for manipulating sf2 and other
formats. This is what Swami uses. There is a python binding for it.
There should be some examples of using lib inst patch in the swami
mailing list archives and there is a wiki here:

http://swami.resonance.org/trac/wiki/libInstPatch

Crypto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at the moment swami is the only tool running on linux natively that deals with
> manipulating SF2 files.
>
> My personal SF2 collection has grown over time and it is a pain to find out
> the best presets in each file (I mostly use GM collections of sounds).
>
> I have read about a lib that implements functions to work on SF2 files, but I
> have not found any doc about it. Where can I find the lib and doc for it? If
> there was a CLI tool that uses the lib then I think by using scripts handling
> the SF2 files could be easier. Something that does most if not all things
> that swami does, only that it is run via CLI and a command line.
>
> Looking at SF2 WAV samples I noticed that in most cases they are not
> normalized which results in the old problem of different presets having
> different volume throughout a SF2 file.
>
> This is where I would like something that does normalizing the sample(s) of
> the preset. I know that normalizing tools are out there, it's more a question
> of putting pieces together.
>
> The second problem which is even worse to deal with is looping sounds. I know
> that it is unlikely this could be done automagically, but an option in tools
> such as swami to find zero levels of a sample could already help. Maybe this
> is something for the next release of swami? Or maybe you have other
> suggestions on handling SF2 files?
>
> Kind regards,
> Crypto.
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