WilhelmSFX

[Wh1teDuke]

Maybe you are interested in https://github.com/Wh1teDuke/WilhelmSFX, my project to create a handy soundfont for audio effects, which aligns closely to NeoSoundFonts's goals.

[Wh1teDuke]

cc @LoveBodhi

[LoveBodhi]

There're non-free licenses and therefore partial sources (e.g. Pixabay contents after 2019-1-9) cannot be imported to NeoSF2. only freesound.org CC0/CC-BY meets this requirement.

So, we can only select CC0/CC-BY sources to import this.

[Wh1teDuke]

What's the matter with the rest? Their licenses are pretty much equivalent.

[LoveBodhi]

Pixabay: Contents before 2019-1-9, they're CC0, meets free cultral works. After 2019-1-9, they're "content license", non-free.
Sonniss: Licensee may not modify any of the sound effects with intent to claim authorship of the original recording. Licensee may not sell any of the sound effects as they come. (Although the sound effects may be sold as incorporated into licensee project). Also, no AI training or usage, so non-free.

[Wh1teDuke]

I can and I should replace pixabay's samples (some of them are in mp3 format). A pity about Sonnis, because they are of high quality. Still you don't need to purge the samples, I can provide a switch to generate the soundfont with only samples from freesounds.

[LoveBodhi]

I can and I should replace pixabay's samples (some of them are in mp3 format). A pity about Sonnis, because they are of high quality. Still you don't need to purge the samples, I can provide a switch to generate the soundfont with only samples from freesounds.

We would replace them.

BTW, I did a branch: https://github.com/NeoSoundFonts/WilhelmSFX/tree/libre-sample-addons

[Wh1teDuke]

Be aware that the readme is autogenerated when you call gen.cs

[LoveBodhi]

My build got error

BuildError.txt

Maybe the FFMPEG problem?

[Wh1teDuke]

Let met debug on windows.

[Wh1teDuke]

Tested it on win 11 and had no issues. Maybe it's your ffmpeg installation after all. I installed it using the command winget install "FFmpeg (Essentials Build)".

[LoveBodhi]

My FFMPEG version is ffmpeg-n4.4-latest-win64-lgpl-shared-4.4.

[Wh1teDuke]

Looks like an old version to me. Make sure to get the latest binaries https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows

[LoveBodhi]

Build successful now, using FFMPEG 8.1.1.

[LoveBodhi]

Alternative Method is import them one-by-one via Polyphone I think...

[LoveBodhi]

The openable software maybe SpessaFont (SF3) after build...

Also, OGG is lossy compression.

[Wh1teDuke]

Not a bad compromise, reduces the samples from 200MB to 10MB. But you can control the quality with the -q param. By default is set to 6, set it to 10 if you want max quality.