sf2extract - Extract samples from SoundFont version 2 (.sf2) files.
sf2extract [ -v ] SF2FILE DESTDIR [SAMPLENR] [ [SAMPLENR] ... ]
Extract samples from SoundFont version 2 (.sf2) files. All extracted samples
will be written in .wav format. You must at least supply name of the .sf2
input file and an output path where all extracted samples should be written
to. By default
sf2extract extracts all samples contained in the
SoundFont file, even if they are not linked by any instrument in the .sf2
file, but you can also extract only particular samples by supplying a list of
samples indices at the end of the command line. You can use the
sf2dump(1) tool to see the list of available samples and their sample
indices of a SoundFont file.
Stereo Samples: Note that stereo samples are always stored as pair of
separate two mono samples with Sound Font files. Keep that in mind when
selecting individual samples by index.
sf2dump(1) shows you which
(mono) sample is linked to which other (mono) sample to form a stereo sample
pair.
sf2extract automatically detects if one of the samples is part of
a stereo pair and automatically extracts the two as combined interleaved
stereo sample data to the output .wav file. Hence it is sufficient to pass the
index of one of the two (mono) samples of each stereo pair you want to
extract.
- SF2FILE
- filename of the input SoundFont file
- DESTDIR
- output path where all samples should be extracted to
- SAMPLENR
- optional index of sample(s) to be exclusively
extracted
- -v
- print version and exit
sf2dump(1),
gigextract(1),
gigdump(1)
Check and report bugs at
http://bugs.linuxsampler.org
Application and manual page written by Christian Schoenebeck
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