Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] SFZ2 Format Specification?

[Andreas P. <and...@ou...>]

Philip Bennefall skrev den 2015-02-06 18:21:
> Hi all,
> 
> I signed up to this mailing list primarily because I am very interested 
> in the SFZ format. I have read the original format specification, but a 
> bit of googling indicates that there is an unofficial version 2 
> specification floating around.

The sfz v2 format is not really a single format with a specification, at
least that's not how it started. It started as different extensions to
the sfz v1 format used in different Cakewalk synthesizers.

But the extensions were then documented in an appendix in the book
"Cakewalk Synthesizers: From Presets to Power User" by Simon Cann, and
after that other sampler software started to support subsets of the opcodes.

 I am looking to implement at least a
> subset of the SFZ format for a sampler that will be integrated in a 
> package for adaptive video game music rendering, and it would be great 
> to start from the 2.0 specification if this is the direction in which we 
> are headed. I submitted a request to get access to the format 
> specification on Google docs, but haven't heard back. Is there a way in 
> which I could possibly read the specification? Also, is it acceptable to 
> write an implementation based on the specification (is it public domain, 
> in other words)?

I think much of the spec on Google docs you refer to was typed in right
from the book, so maybe that's why it's now inaccessible.

You can find a list of all sfz v2 opcodes here:
http://www.linuxsampler.org/sfz/, but unfortunately there are no
descriptions of what they do.

/Andreas