SFZ Players
There are several SFZ players, which are used to play samples as defined in SFZ files.
Sforzando currently offers the most complete SFZ standard support, including ARIA extensions, but SFZ files which only use the SFZ v1 or SFZ v2 standard will work with multiple SFZ players.
We use “Free and Open Source” (FOSS) as defined by the OSI as “software to be freely used, modified, and shared.”
Players #
Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows |
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Carla (SFZero) | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
liquidsfz | FOSS | ✓ | X | X |
sfizz | BSD-2-Clause | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SFZero | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Zerberus, The MuseScore SFZ synthesizer | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
LinuxSampler | Custom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
BassMIDI VSTi | Freeware | X | X | ✓ |
Grace | Freeware | X | X | ✓ |
Sforzando | Freeware | X | ✓ | ✓ |
TX16Wx Sampler | Freeware | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Zampler | Freeware | X | ✓ | ✓ |
ARIA | OEM | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Bliss Sampler | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Samplelord | Commercial | X | X | ✓ |
TAL-Sampler | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
UVI Falcon | Commercial | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Wusik Station V9, Wusik 9009, Wusik One, Wusik EVE V5 | Commercial | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Import from SFZ #
Name | License | Linux | macOS | Windows |
---|---|---|---|---|
HISE | FOSS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
OpenMPT | BSD-3-Clause | X | X | ✓ |
Renoise (Redux) | Commercial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
No longer available #
- Cakewalk sfz
- Alchemy (Camel Audio was acquired by Apple, and the current incarnation of Alchemy no longer supports SFZ.)