Comments on: bpb Freeware Studio: The Best Free SoundFont Player VSTi Plugins

By: Goo

Goo — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 09:52:07 +0000

bs-0, Phenome and SFZ+ Professional are dead now …

By: Denny7794

Denny7794 — Sun, 16 May 2021 05:12:07 +0000

Gotcha – SF2 player by Beatassist has many tweaks and FX onboard

By: Beytu

Beytu — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:42:25 +0000

Sf2 Tale is Over …

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 22:13:30 +0000

Guys! Can someone upload SFZ + Professional 64? I can not find it anywhere….

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:52:14 +0000

In reply to Hmm. SFZ and NKI.

By: Hmm

Hmm — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 02:09:54 +0000

“The good old SoundFont format is definitely becoming a thing of the past. ”

Really? Then what replaces it?

By: Josão Caldereiro

Josão Caldereiro — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:55:10 +0000

The free Sfz Player is a sf2 player too!! Unlike SFZ+, SFZ Player can load both sf2 and sfz files and there’s a great advantage in using it: It has multicore CPU support, and SFZ+ has not.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:04:35 +0000

The best one I have found, after trying them all is tx16wx vst. Brilliant and the best if you ask me.

By: K8ch

K8ch — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:15:20 +0000

I gotta agree w/Rumpelfilter: DKS SF2 works very well.
At least, in Reaper..
I had the same problem w/SFZ, as well.
“Sfzorando” (sp?) is also a good too, and it play samples and soundfonts.

By the way…thank you for this great page. What a wonderful reference!!

Peace,
K8ch

By: bmovie

bmovie — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:36:13 +0000

sforzando will convert SF2 files to SFZ and will play them.
And what about the best sfz player category? :)

By: V'ger

V'ger — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:11:06 +0000

Just been going through SF players myself and found ShortCircuit2 is really the business. It has a browser to load by single click like Phenome, but is searchable which is really very useful.

It is also a fully fledged sampler to edit samples and zones etc to fix or adjust those pesky soundfonts. Of course it also loads .gig and .kit and normal .wav and .aiff.

It doesn’t have direct from disk (DFD) like SFZ+ though.

By: bedroomproducers

bedroomproducers — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:41:07 +0000

i guess you’re right guys. not being able to browse through the presets is a drawback, but even so, shorcircuit offers superior functionality when compared to other freeware sf2 hosts. so i’ve decided to add it to the list.

cheers joe and rumpel! ;]