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The SFZ Format is widely accepted as an open standard to define the behavior of a musical instrument from a bare set of sound recordings. Similar file formats are the open Decent Sampler format (.dspreset) and the proprietary format used by Native Instruments Kontakt (.nki, .nkm). A simple example of an SFZ file:
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
SFZ or sfz may refer to: Sforzando, a dynamic marking in music; Sforzando (band), a Celtic music band from Australia; SFZ (file format), a plain text file format for instrument data in software synthesizers; Slovak Football Association; Sorong Fault Zone, a geological fault line in Western Pacific Ocean; Star Fox Zero, a video game
The 2.04 format added support for 24-bit samples. The 2.04 format is bidirectionally compatible with the 2.01 format, so synthesizers that are only capable of rendering 2.0 or 2.01 format would automatically render instruments using 24-bit samples at 16-bit precision.
An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content —in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format , but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.
A recording production term for additional instruments or voices—orchestral bowed strings, vocal harmonies from a group of professional backup singers, Latin percussionists, etc.– to a basic "bed track" or "basic track" of bass, drums, and rhythm guitar or piano. Widely used in the 1970s in soft rock and disco.
Audio file icons of various formats. An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.