SF2LOAD

The SF2LOAD application was designed to be a small program that controls the SoundBlaster Live! / AWE32 / SB32 / AWE64 soundcard. It's main purpose is to load SoundFonts into the memory of the soundcard.

There is of course nothing remarkable about that, you can achieve the same thing using the SoundFont - AudioHQ [SBLive] or AWE Control Panel [AWE] program included with your soundcard. The reason I made this program was that I got tired of manually loading a different set of SoundFonts for every song I made - it's a lot of clicking when you use the SoundFont - AudioHQ [SBLive] or AWE Control Panel [AWE], which are standard windows programs.

SF2LOAD on the other hand is a command-line dos program which require no user interaction, and thus can be used in a dos batch file. I use SF2LOAD to automagically create a batch file containing all the SoundFonts the song uses, and I then run this bat file whenever I want to work with or listen to the song. SF2LOAD is also ideal for preparing distribution of songs that use SoundFonts.

SF2LOAD is run from the command-line, and the syntax is

SF2LOAD [] [ ]

Available Options:

-h Help -d Create a bat-file for loading all soundfonts currently in memory. Use full pathnames. -dist Create a bat-file for loading all soundfonts currently in memory. Use filenames only (suitable for distribution) -distm Create a bat-file (filename.bat) for loading all soundfonts in memory. Use filenames only and include a line to play the MIDI file (filename.mid) using mediaplayer -c Clear the specified soundbank (remove it from memory) -C Clear all soundbanks currently in memory -n Set AWE device number (for users with multiple cards) -l List all soundfonts currently in memory -L List all soundfonts currently in memory (with filenames) -p List all (melodic) presets in bank -i Print information about the AWE card -v Enable verbose mode -nt Do not print the program title -t Print the program title