OK, Dale: This Qui(sf)z Is For You

What in the name of Sam Hill have these crazy mixed-up kids done to Rapture's .sfz files? If I've got to learn to hand-edit that, I'm out.

I don't have that jibberish in front of me right now but I'm tipping that you're looking at an sfz with an embedded wave file.

You're using UltraEdit-32, right? Try appending a wave file at the right place (forget what the tag is, <sample> ??? data= ??? Like I say, I'm without my sfz-geek machine…) and see what happens.

Pretty cool for creating .sfz + .wav monoliths — much easier for sharing. Also, I think René wanted a way of defining an oversize wavetable without resorting to a seperate .sfz + .wav combo.

Also, I don't know whether I dreamed this or not: yEnc?

In Rapture, we had many wavetables which needed to be longer than the standard wav size (3000 samples) to preserve all original harmonics. Then first we just created the .sfz/.wav combo.

But then, to simplify distribution, installation, version control and others, we implemented a way to -embed- binary data into a text file. This data is generated by a simple application, based on the original ogg/wav/aif file. It's based on yEnc, one of the most efficient encoding algorithms to do that.

Once the text is in, you can copy/paste it as any text. Having a fully definited multisample, including the samples in a text file is kinda cool



-René

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Copy/Paste into an empty text file for a bonus wavetable. It's the one I prepared for the LFO sample.

-René

Hmm. Please verify if you do have a 'Sample Pool' folder under your Rapture installation, right there with \Wavetables, \Resources, etc. Is it there? should be empty.


-René

Interesting. Possibly the browser eating stuff. Would you mind to try the direct version?

http://www.rgcstuff.com/External/squary.sfz



-René

Possibly the browser eating stuff.

Dunno. I tried IE and Mozilla. All I can see that's different (before I went cross-eyed) is the lack of comments, the Entered blank line, and the spacing *appears* tighter in the direct version. But i don't know if that's the difference between two apostrophes, or quotes instead, or what. I stick by my original diagnosis: n00Bie error on my part. 'Course, that alone in punishment enough.

At any rate, it's up to me to take this deeper. What a potential! Oh, and yes, the direct version worked like a charm. Nice clean waveform that really serves well as a testing source for the detuning stuff, filters, etc. Thanks for the walk-through and solution, Rene.