Utilities for SoundFont files.
- compress sound font files with ogg vorbis for use with MuseScore
- convert to "C" for embedding
- Qt >= 5.6
- libsndfile
- libogg
- libvorbis
$ make release
This compresses the Fluid sound font from 148 MBytes to 20 MBytes.
sf3convert -z FluidR3.SF2 mops.sf3
The compressed sound font has the major version number 3. Its non standard and can be used only (so far) by MuseScore.
Stereo samples are compressed as two single streams instead of compressing them as stereo ogg vorbis streams. This may be less optimal.