Tenor Sax Soft (from a SF2)

[Tbone]

I like and used to play a lot this Tenor Sax sound, first program of the free "463 Tenor sax" soundfont, so I worked to convert it into a .nsmp to be able to play it on my NS2

Hope you like it too.

• Tenor Sax Soft SF2 Demo.mp3

[jianrobson]

Excellent sound!
I presume you got the original file from here: http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/ ??
Looks like a great source, in particular it is free (both as in beer and speech)!
BTW, which progrma did you use to convert the sf2 soundfont into wav?

[maxpiano]

Excellent sound!
I presume you got the original file from here: http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/ ??
Looks like a great source, in particular it is free (both as in beer and speech)!
BTW, which progrma did you use to convert the sf2 soundfont into wav?

I don't remember exactly but that site is one I know, so it could be

To extract the sf2 waves I use the demo version of CDXtract, which is limited to the first SF2 sound of each file while the full version has no limits.
But there is a workaround: the SF2Splitter utility that extracts instruments from multipatch SoundFont files and saves to separate SoundFont files....et voilá

The nice thing of CDXtract is that it also shows the original loop points and distribution of samples across the keyboard!

[azwel]

Thats a good tenor sax sound. I dont know how to download from that site. I wonder if theyre real samples. i cant hear any though. Did you happen to make any other sf files?

[maxpiano]

Hi azwel, no I am not working much on NS2 samples lately. Most soundfonts seem to use real samples for acoustic instruments, not sure where they come from though, but as long as the .sf2 are free I don't really mind

If you want to try the soundfonts on your PC just use a VSTi such as sfz or sfz plus to play them, then when you find a sound that you like, you can follow the procedure I described in my previous post (using CDXtract and SF2splitter to obtain the .wav files then assembling them in a .nsmp using the Nord Sound Editor)