Sfz Player Vst Free
Alchemy Player by Camel Audio (@KVRAudio Product Listing): Alchemy Player is a free software instrument with a 1GB sample library and 200 instrument sounds including evolving soundscapes, lush pads, and pulsing arpeggios. Alchemy Player may be the only sample player you ever need, since it can now load any SFZ sample library. Best Free 64 bit VST/AU Samplers and SFZ Players SFZ sample player – sforzando by Plogue. SFZ sample player released by Plogue with a single instrument slot. It comes without effects. TX16Wx by CWI Technology. Multi-timbral sampler inspired by classic 80s machines, that can load WAV/FLAC/AIFF/SFZ. SFZ files provide a way for cross-host collaboration. The SFZ Player (Fig. 1) included in Sonar, a VST plug-in that works in any VST-compatible host, is available as a free download. 1: The SFZ Player is a free download that works in any VST-compatible host, not just Sonar. An editor for the SFZ format used by certain VST instruments. It will also convert Soundfont SF2 to SFZ and works with a midi keyboard to allow you to play and set values, including mapping drum samples. SFZ Designer: Freeware: X: X A visual sample mapping tool optimized for multiple velocity and round-robin layers. Available for Windows (32 & 64 bit) & Mac (VST & AU 64 bit) This one is more than a simple sampler for loading & playing audio files! It’s the more complete & full featured free sampler. Tons of modulations & envelope, powerful keyboard mapping It can load wav, aiff ogg, flac + sf2 soundfonts and sfz. SFZ Format (Level 2.0) - 48 kHz, FLAC, Mono - 16.2 MB on Disk Works in most DAWs and notation software using Plogue's sforzando, a free SFZ player that functions as both a standalone player, as well as a VST/AU/RTAS/AAX plugin. Current Version: 1.1.3 Version History.
There are several SFZ players, which are used to play samples as defined in SFZfiles.
Sforzando currently offers the most complete SFZ standard support, includingARIA extensions, but SFZ files which only use the SFZ v1 or SFZ v2 standardwill work with multiple SFZ players.
We use “Free and Open Source” (FOSS) as defined by the OSIas “software to be freely used, modified, and shared.”
Players #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carla (SFZero) | GPL-2.0-or-later | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. |
| liquidsfz | LGPL-2.1 | ✓ | X | X | SFZ sampler library with LV2 and JACK support. |
| sfizz | BSD-2-Clause | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | SFZ library, AU/LV2/VST3 plugin with JACK support. |
| SFZero | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | An SFZ (and SF2) player and Juce module. |
| Zerberus | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | MuseScore SFZ synthesizer. |
| LinuxSampler | Custom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BassMIDI VSTi | Freeware | X | X | ✓ | Extension to the BASS audio library, enabling the playing of MIDI files and custom event sequences, using SF2 soundfonts and/or SFZ to provide the sounds. MIDI input is also supported. |
| Grace | MIT | X | X | ✓ | |
| sforzando | Freeware | X | ✓ | ✓ | A free, highly SFZ 2.0 compliant sample player. Supports almost all SFZ v1 and v2 opcodes, plus ARIA extensions. |
| TX16Wx Sampler | Freeware | X | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Zampler | Freeware | X | ✓ | ✓ | Synth-based sample player using SFZ format as its sound generator. It supports very minimal SFZ v1 opcodes, only for key-range and velocity-range mapping. |
| ARIA | OEM | X | ✓ | ✓ | An audio sampling and synthesis Engine based on the SFZ 1.0 / SFZ 2.0 open file formats for instrument programming and the Scala open file format to define scales and temperaments. |
| Bliss Sampler | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Samplelord | Commercial | X | X | ✓ | Sample player as standalone or VSTi plugin for Windows 32-bit OS that can load different sounds in different formats. Has basic parameter controls, supports only SFZ v1 opcodes. |
| TAL-Sampler | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| UVI Falcon | Commercial | X | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Wusik Station V9, Wusik 9009, Wusik One, Wusik EVE V5 | Commercial | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Import from SFZ #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitwig Studio | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Sampler device supports the import of SFZ. Also via drag & drop. |
| HISE | GPL-3.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OpenMPT | BSD-3-Clause | X | X | ✓ | |
| Poise | Freeware | X | X | ✓ | Simple 16 drum pads percussion sampler, 8 layers. Very limited SFZ support. |
| Renoise (Redux) | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Free Sfz Files
No longer available #
Sfz Player Vst Free Plugins
- Cakewalk sfz
- Alchemy (Camel Audio was acquired by Apple,and the current incarnation of Alchemy no longer supports SFZ.)
Although SFZ files can be created with any text editor, and some users have alsocreated SFZ with spreadsheets, there are some dedicated tools which can makemapping large amounts of samples easier. As SFZ instruments can quickly grow tothousands of samples, efficiency in creating the mappings becomes important.One way of creating SFZ files is to use one of these tools to create the initialmaps with keys, dynamic layers, round robins etc. defined,then add controls etc. using a text editor.
Automappers #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFZ Python Automapper by Peter Eastman | Public Domain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Folder-to-SFZ converter | Freeware | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Bjoerns Sample Mapper | Freeware | X | X | ✓ |
Converters #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXS2SFZ | Freeware | X | X | ✓ | Imports sample mapping information from EXS24 instruments and generates SFZ files from it. |
| Awave Studio | Commercial | X | ✓ | ✓ | Multi-purpose audio tool that reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different platforms, synthesizers, trackers, mobile phones. It can be used in a variety of ways; as a file format converter, as an audio editor, or as a synth instrument editor. |
| Chicken Systems Translator | Commercial | X | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Extreme Sample Converter | Commercial | X | X | ✓ |
Editors #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polyphone | GPL-3.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | An open-source soundfont editor for creating musical instruments. |
| sfZed | Freeware | X | X | ✓ | An editor for the SFZ format used by certain VST instruments. It will also convert Soundfont SF2 to SFZ and works with a midi keyboard to allow you to play and set values, including mapping drum samples. |
| SFZ Designer | Freeware | X | X | ✓ | A visual sample mapping tool optimized for multiple velocity and round-robin layers. It features a streamlined workflow, assisted opcode entry, draggable key-range and velocity splits-points, and more. |
Misc #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freepats-tools | GPL-3.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tools to manage, create and convert sound fonts, collections of sampled musical instruments and sound banks. Originally created for the FreePats project. |
Syntax Highlighting #
| Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CudaText Editor | MPL-2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SFZ major mode for GNU Emacs | MIT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| for Geany | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| for gedit | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| for Sublime Text | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| for VSCode | MIT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| for Notepad++ | FOSS | X | X | ✓ | |
| for Notepad++ by Peter Jones | FOSS | X | X | ✓ | |
| SFZ Tools for UltraEdit | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Free Sfz Player Vst
Some Windows only software can be used under other Unix based operating systemsusing Wine / CrossOver or in a virtual machine software like VirtualBox.