Lazerbeat
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I know piggy has soundfont support but im a bit confused about how they differ from just a collection of samples. Can anyone break down the advantages of using soundfonts in piggy for me. Assume im a complete idiot on this topic....

Hayze
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Never used soundfounts in piggy, but I use the piggy on my PSP.
With .Wav samples you can change the filter, downsample, crush, etc.
I'm guessing with soundfonts maybe you could do the same?

Cooshinator
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Soundfonts have built-in loop points, and thus sound somewhat more "natural"

Saskrotch
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Chicago IL

also you can have more than one sample per preset, like a drum kit, or having a different recording each octave to keep it from getting too pitch-shifty sounding

ant1
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yeah saskrotch hit the nail on the head

the main advantage is that a different sample can be mapped to each note, or to arbitrary ranges of notes-- similar to what most rompling keyboards do. basic volume/pitch envelope stuff can also be done with it -- some of the 808 sounds in the microsoft set (the kick and the tom at least) are just made from sine waves with pitch envelopes, and i think it can also play back more than one sample per note.

i don't know how many of these features will be supported in piggy

the best editor is, i think, viena: http://www.synthfont.com/Viena_news.html

the main application in piggy (which generally produces artificial-sounding music anyway) will probably be drum kits - but putting them together might be more hassle than it is worth. the microsoft GS set (GM.DLS) has 808 and 909 kits in it plus a few others that you can use if you convert it to sf2

Saskrotch
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ant1 wrote:

i think it can also play back more than one sample per note.

Yep!

I'm actually working on a little basic soundfont tutorial that I'll post once I get some other stuff done to release with it .

martin_demsky
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Vienna was native creative labs editor in the days of sb awe64 era but Awave Studio was best in my opinion, very quick

ant1
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viena and vienna are not the same wink

awave is very nice though! i didn't know it had sound-font specific features such as volume envelopes and stuff, but it is definitely worth having anyway!

egr
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Interesting, I never took the time to learn about soundfonts, now they sound really useful.

herr_prof
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Loop points and mapping should be supported.