SoundFont 2.0

File Format
Name	SoundFont 2.0
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music SoundFont 2.0
Extension(s)	.sf2

SoundFont 2.0 is a format used to store instrument patches for MIDI synthesisers. The SoundFont 2.0 format is based on RIFF; the RIFF type identifier is "sfbk".

See also SoundFont 1.0.

Identification

Files begin with ASCII "RIFF", and have "sfbk" at offset 8.

In most cases, this is followed by "LIST" at offset 12, "INFOifil" at offset 20, and bytes 02 00 at offset 32. The last 02 byte distinguishes major version 2 from major version 1.

Software

• Swami
• FluidSynth

Example files

• http://freepats.zenvoid.org/sf2/acoustic_grand_piano_ydp_20080910.sf2
• ftp://ftp.personalcopy.net/pub/Unison.sf2.gz
• dexvert samples — audio/soundFont2

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont