Soundry

Soundry is an exercise in exploration: it’s a parser for the SFZ file format, written in Rust that intends to be capable of handling both SFZ versions. As well, it intends to implement the full set of opcodes for various headers, and ideally, parse SFZ files programmatically depending on the tools that would use the parser.

For example, Meadlowlark is a Rust based DAW, for which someone could use Soundry to develop a synthesizer plugin that provides instruments, synths, and the like.

Soundry is still in development, though it currently supports most of the opcodes that I’m aware of. That being said, given the lack of formal specification for the SFZ format (what does exist of one is community driven), and variation in what SFZ opcode and header various players and DAWs support, I may be (read: likely am) missing some.

Currently Soundry can parse Control and Region headers: I chose to handle those first because the remaining SFZ headers are either very simple or niche, such as Effect (which only has 2-4 opcodes), and Midi (which is specific to the ARIA engine), or wrappers around other headers, such as Group, which wraps Region headers, or Global and Master, which wrap Group and Region Headers (as well providing opcode definitions that take precedence, by way of the pseudo-hierarchical nature of the format).