S2400 Soundfont instrument plugin creator

S2400
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hey folks!
Go ahead and test it out
https://sf2lv2.islainstruments.com/

here’s a video to explain what it’s all about

of course I have bigger plans for this, multiple legacy file format import and editing etc.
but this is ground zero and a bloody good start!!!

I’m 46 today, so I’m off to get drunk for the weekend! byeeeeeeee…
Enjoy
Brad x

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Good stuff, well appreciated! Happy Birthday man have a good one!

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Cheers!

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Happy birthday my man!!

This is awesome stuff Brad

Few questions/suggestions:

  1. does the midi input function require a specific browser? Safari is not having it!
  2. Also lotta soundfonts are just not loading. Could this again be browser specific?
  3. do we get patch management in a future version? Would be lovely to have just one or a couple of LV2’s that contain all the patches I want acquired from multiple sound fonts.
  4. Can you make transpose buttons, in case you’re not working with midi input and specific sounds are mapped to key’s that are not in range of the onscreen keyboard.
  5. is it possible to make a button to map the computer keyboard to the onscreen keys? maybe even a key for sustain and octave up and down.

I think that’s it for now… Grab a beer or two first! :smiley:

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OK, midi input solved with Chrome. Please let me know if there are other browsers that are compatible.

Also where im referring to in comment (2). Seems that happens when soundfonts are around 200 megabyte and up. Is there a cap on file size?

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I’ve only tested on chrome so far.
lots of stuff planned for this.
my wanting to get it out now it compiles a plugin is so that y’all can get fresh sounds onto your machine.

at this stage, if you really want to go a step further you can spark up polyphone, create a custom multi sample with whatever you want and get it onto the S2400. that was the initial goal.

I’ll keep building on this, and you saw the other version I’m working on in a previous video…
This is a start…

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Yes, I already stumbled upon polyphone during my search for some good soundfonts. Have to check it out then. Thanks m8!

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First, happy birthday!

Second, Isla is absolutely killing it. You guys are really on a roll.

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If I want to play two different programs in the same soundfont, does that use two DSP tracks, or can a single soundfont be multi-timbral in some sense?

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You can currently only play one patch per plugin. They are not multi-timbral

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Hey @bradholland thank you for getting this rolling, I think this is one of the coolest aspects of the new DSP card.

Today I purchased the “Acoustic Kits” from DSF. I’ve been excited to have multilayer samples and a proper EQ / saturation / plate drum buss on the S2400. When you unzip the purchase, you get six kits between 115MB and 185MB. Each kit is an *.sf2 file.

Using Google’s Chrome and the link above, I am not getting a successful conversion to LV2 for any of the *.sf2 files. Two errors are popping up: “Upload Timed Out” and “Upload Failed.”

The sample kits are pretty large for drums, but I think this means they’re going to be pretty professional. The demo tracks sound pretty good. I’m hoping this is something that can be debugged. Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I played with Polyphone for a bit. The samples are 16b / 48k (should be compatible)(dualMono = stereo). Tim has done a ton of detailed programming that I’m not gonna touch. A much smaller “jazz kit” off the polyphone site did work in the convertor.

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Gotcha, yeah I’ll increase the upload limit on Monday.
Also, be warned, a file that large will probably take 10+minutes to sync

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Awesome. Thank you. Totally fine with a 10 minute upload time. Good drum multilayer samples and full processing chains will make the S2400 a permanent beast.

Getting a bit greedy, the Rhodes and Wurlitzers on DSF appear to be in the mid-200MB. Sorta the same argument here, quality samples and a processing chain starts rivaling dedicated emulations. That might be implausible for the HW, but I appreciate any consideration.

Getting the sub-200 drums on the S2400 is a huge win for what I’d like to do with this box. Thank you!

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Thanks for this, it’s working well with some of my old soundfonts but the envelope/filter controls in the plugin params don’t do anything when loaded on the S2400. I guess they’re not hooked up to anything in my old sf2 files and I need to edit those first?

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exactly.
Global modulators need to be assign INSIDE your soundfont.
You can do this easily in something like polyphone.

That said, as my app matures, I intend to make it a complete application to allow you to not only create soundfonts from scratch, but also add those modulators etc.

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file limits increased to 1gb.
I cant really increase beyond this, I won’t be able to pay my mortgage.

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the rhodes, and the e-mu vintage keys sounds GREAT on the S2400!
especially with a nice bit of MDA leslie and delay/verb on the send bus.

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oops not yet actually. working on it.

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Nice nice nice. Thank you!

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Hey @bradholland - what is the mono / stereo policy for plugins? The DSF drums are stereo. For kicks and snares I might want to make those mono buses, with a separate stereo track instance for hats and cymbals. Does a stereo plug on a mono track sum the channels or grab one of the two?