Ralf, have a look at the program "polyphone". It's in the community repo and seems to be able to convert sf2 to sfz and vice versa (main menu/export soundfonts) - Oliver On Wednesday, 15 May 2019, 11:08:00 CEST you wrote:

Hi,

does somebody know a Linux tool to convert soundfonts from sf2 to sfz?

I tried to send this request to https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-proaudio first, but I got "Your message has been rejected, probably because you are not subscribed to the mailing list". I seemingly was arbitrary removed from this mailing list.

Regards, Ralf

PS: I already installed 2 Windows tools, but would prefer a Linux tool. If somebody should be interested to test them, too:

On Arch Linux sforzando Version 1.933 and sfZed beta 0.9 can be installed and launched using wine-staging 4.8-1. I haven't tested, if one or both apps do the job.

To install sforzando Version 1.933 open a terminal and run

mkdir -p $HOME/.wine-sf/drive_c/users/$USER/Downloads/{sforzando,sfzed} cd $HOME/.wine-sf/drive_c/users/$USER/Downloads/sforzando/ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/sforzando/{WIN_sforzando_v1.933.exe,sforzando_guid e.pdf,FreeSounds/WIN_ARIA_Engine_Free_Sounds_Vol1.exe} WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-sf wine WIN_sforzando_v1.933.exe

Wine asks to install wine-mono, just cancel.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-sf wine WIN_ARIA_Engine_Free_Sounds_Vol1.exe

Continue with sfZed beta 0.9 by running

cd $HOME/.wine-sf/drive_c/users/$USER/Downloads/sfzed/

Since wget fails to download sfZed use w3m

w3m http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html

Use the cursor down key to navigate to "Download sfZed" and hit Enter. As soon as "(Download)Save file to: sfZed09.zip" appears on the bottom hit Enter. After the download is complete push q and then confirm with y.

wget http://alt2.vst4free.com/get_plug/sfz.zip unzip sfZed09.zip && rm sfZed09.zip unzip sfz.zip && rm sfz.zip WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-sf wine sfz197.exe

Now everything is installed.

To launch sforzando Version 1.933 run

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-sf wine $HOME'/.wine-sf/drive_c/Program Files/Plogue/sforzando/sforzando x64.exe' >/dev/null 2>&1

To launch sfZed beta 0.9 run

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-sf wine $HOME/.wine-sf/drive_c/users/$USER/Downloads/sfzed/sfZed.exe >/dev/null 2>&1

The dll required by sfZed is located in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Vstplugins\sfz.dll

$HOME'/.wine-sf/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Vstplugins/sfz.dll'