My own soundfont

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#1

I’m trying to create a soundfont of me

#2

ok…here’s the easiest way for me to explain what I want to do.

I want to “play notes” on the piano roll with my voice singing the notes.

How do I take a recorded audio file and set it as a soundfont to be used in midi?

I used to have an old keyboard where I could take an audio sample and play it back and it would change the pitch as I went up or down the scale.

I hope this makes sense.

#3

Hi, Optimus. There are countless way to achieve your goal. Tell us what hardware and software you have.

#4

If you want to built an actual soundfont with proper key grouping etc then here are a couple editors/players. Althouh, at least with Alchemy, you can load a single sample and play it via a midi keyboard through n-Track but it will get Chipmunk-ish at the top end. So it might be worth building a decent sample group of at least a couple of sung notes per octave.

http://www.camelaudio.com/AlchemyPlayer.php

http://www.synthfont.com/

#5

Thanks Krackpot, I’ll look into those two links.

Currently I have a Yamaha PSR-293 keyboard and running ntrack studio 7 EX in a Core i5 with Windows 8.

I don’t need to control the sounds with the keyboard but it would be nice.

#6

Open n-T and record your voice - one note per track, over a whole octave. Working on one WAV at a time, tidy the start and end of each note (using the “volume Draw” function, adding EQ/FX etc as required) and then “Mix Down” a tidy sample of each one individually and titled respectively (A Bb B…). You can then, either load and organise them with a VST sample player (as above etc(or n-TDrums), which will allow you to place and manipulate them in a pianoroll and play them with your keys. Or you could “Import” them into n-T, onto a Timeline/Audi Track and drag them around.
Have fun.

#7

cakewalk made a vst a few years back that made SFZ’s out of your samples,

RGC sfz

one thing I remember about it with longer samples was I had a hard time keeping the pitch in concert as you go up an down the scale.

not so much noticeable with single note samples, but take a arpeggio for example and forget it, especially with tempo changes.

I do wonder if either of these other two are more accurate in that respect?