Sforzando is a vst instruments plugins developed by Plogue, a free SFZ Player VST plugins that you can use on any VST Compatible hosts such as Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo, Wavelab, FL Studio/Fruityloops, Ableton Live, Adobe Audition, LMMS, Reaper, SONAR, Mixcraft, Acid Pro, etc. For more information about Sforzando please visit Developer Website. Producers Buzz is a music production resource website providing free music production tutorials, royalty free drum kits, music production software, sound effects, vst plug-ins, soundfonts, fl studio project files and instrumental beats. Sforzando is a free SFZ player. Simple but powerful for advanced users. Sforzando is a free, highly SFZ 2.0 compliant sample player. Advanced sample hobbyists now have a powerful tool to experiment and share instruments without relying on proprietary formats. Sforzando has only one instrument slot; no fancy UI, effects or mixers.

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2. Free Soundfont Player

A downloadable Sample Pack

The K.K. Slider soundfont is a little broken

As a music maker, I have utilized soundfonts in my workflow for a long time. However, when I switched over to using Sforzando I found that some soundfonts are a little broken and the program can be a little confusing at times. One of these soundfonts was the K.K. Slider Soundfont originally made for Mario Paint Composer

Facing this conundrum and seeing other music makers on twitter having the same issues, I wanted to breathe some new life into the soundfont and since a new Animal Crossing game just came out I figured more people would want to use it.

The Samples

All of the samples in this pack are pulled directly from the K.K. Slider soundfont and are made to work in modern music software such as Ableton Live, FL studio, Bitwig, Cubase, etc. Each sample has the root key of the sample embedded for easy sampler use but there are also SFZ patches to use with Sforzando

Uses SFZ

The SFZ format is a Royalty Free plain text file format that stores instrument data for software synthesizers. It is similar to the Kontakt format and is used in Sforzando. I chose this format because it is easy to edit without having to have extra software to do so, I also chose it because Sforzando is a free plugin thus making it more accessible to use. Since it is just a plain text format it makes it easier to modify these patches to do whatever you want.

On Github

This entire pack can also be found on Github as it is my hope that other music makers can come together and make patches that work in other samplers as well like Kontakt.

This Pack Includes

• 9 Tuned Vocal Samples
• 5 Beatbox Samples
• KK Slider Guitar
• 11 SFZ Patches
• 1 Directwave Patch

Alright What's the Catch?

Hope you can make some good tunes with it.

Download

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this is so so cool. you're brilliant for making this

thanks so much for this! i was having trouble with the original kk soundfont so I was really happy to find this =)

Description

In April 2019, Dave Hilowitz sampled his own voice 16 times (352 notes) and turned it into a choir patch. Two version: Kontakt or SFZ. The Kontakt version requires the full version of Kontakt 5.3.1 or later. The more minimal SFZ version can be used with the free Sforzando VST plug-in.

Free Soundfont Player

Features:

• Compatible with the full version (Not Kontakt Player!) of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.3.1 (or later)
• The Decent Sampler version works with the free Decent Samples player plugin. Download it here.
• Baritone range (22 notes)
• Two distinct sample sets: 8 x ‘ah’ and 8 x ‘oh’
• Four modes: ‘ah’ + ‘oh’, just ah, just oh, and modwheel crossfade between ‘ah’ and ‘oh’. (Kontakt version only. SFZ and Decent Sampler is just ‘ah + oh’)
• No pitch bent samples! 🙂
• Convolution reverb (Kontakt only)
• 1 velocity layer
• No round robins
• Library size: 68MB

Demo track: