CreateSFZ

Free software (GPL), NO WARRANTY.

Create SFZ format sound sample definitions from a directory of samples. Load the .SFZ file in a player (e.g. Sforzando).

java -jar CreateSFZ.jar [ -filter FILENAME_FILTER] [ -format FORMAT_NAME ] [ -o OUPTUTFILE ] [ -note NOTENAME ]  FILE or DIRECTORY
where:
[ ... ] options are optional
 -filter FILENAME_FILTER      Specifies text that must be in sample filenames
DIRECTORY is a directory name to scan entirely for samples
FILE is a single file to use
FORMAT_NAME can be 'pianobook' or 'format1' (the default)

CreateSFZ scans a directory for filenames in known formats, extracts base instrument name, velocity, note name (C0, G#3, etc...), a variation number (for multiple samples per note, will be cycled through...). The found files are used to create an instrument file: the base instrument name is used plus a file extension ".sfz", unless the -o option is used to specify an output filename.

Notes are given a range of keys extended DOWNWARD from the pitch named in the sample filename, to the next lowest sample.

The default format recognises: "baseName_velocityName-NoteName-VariationNumber.wav"

..where velocity name is Soft, Medium or Hard.

Specifying "pianobook" recognises: "baseName velocity NoteName RT?.wav" ..where velocity is any number of m, p, f characters, and RT is present only for a release trigger (played on key or sustain pedal up).

Single Sample Usage

Specifying a single file creates a .sfz instrument with just that one sample. The filename is not interpreted for pitch etc, so the argument -note is needed, e.g. -note c3 Also -o is needed.

Building

git clone ...
cd CreateSFZ                   # Presuming the clone directory name is CreateSFZ

Build with "make":

make
java -jar build/CreateSFZ.jar ...options....

Build manually:

cd src
javac -d ..\build -sourcepath src org\actg\createsfz\*.java

(reverse the slashes on Linux...) then...

cd ..
jar cvfe CreateSFZ.jar org/actg/createsfz/CreateSFZ -C build org/actg/createsfz

Previous github "release" has more basic argument parsing:

java -jar CreateSFZ.jar directoryName 
java -jar CreateSFZ.jar directoryName pianobook

SFZ Format References

http://www.sfzformat.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFZ_(file_format)