Improve sfz support?

Patchbox OS
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I have found a bunch of piano sample libraries in sfz format that I wanted to try on Patchbox OS (Raspberry Pi 4, 8GB). I did this by loading them into Carla (the plugin host - which I think I had to install as it wasn’t installed in Patchbox by default).

Unfortunately, some of the sfz libraries loaded and some of them didn’t. I assumed it was due to so-so sfz support in Carla, so I tried to open the libraries in LinuxSampler. I had nearly as much, if not more, trouble loading them.

Does anybody have any advice? I feel like the sfz support just isn’t quite there yet. I was hoping to get good enough piano sounds to replace my Windows / Kontakt setup, but it just doesn’t seem to be realistic at this point.

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What plugin did you use to try the sfz out? You may try searching for alternative plugins that support sfz files.

You may give Ardour a try: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/sfz-soundfonts-in-ardour/102619

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Carla has native sfz support, so I tried that. I also tried the Linuxsampler plugin in Carla (though I had to also have a LinuxSampler and Qsampler running). Neither of them seemed to work with all sample libraries. I will try Ardour, thanks!