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✨ sfizz_render — the man page, but make it cute ✨

Okay so bestie, you're looking at the sfizz_render man page (that's the manual name, iykyk) and honestly? It's giving "small tool, big slay." Let me walk you through it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

sfizz_render — renders a MIDI file as a WAV file using an SFZ instrument description. Literally that's the whole vibe: MIDI goes in, audio comes out, no cap 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sfizz_render --sfz FILE --wav FILE --midi FILE [OPTIONS...]

Three files in, one glorious WAV out. The [OPTIONS...] at the end is where you get to be a little extra ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

sfizz_render is a thin little wrapper around the sfizz SFZ library, and what it does is honestly iconic: it takes a MIDI file and renders it into sound files using an SFZ description file plus all the samples that come with it. Like, it's a whole offline renderer, just vibing in your terminal, turning note data into actual audible music 🎶 Bestie, it ate.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -b, --blocksize NUMBER — the block size used for the sfizz callbacks. Little blocks, big blocks, you decide 🧚
  • -s, --samplerate NUMBER — the output sample rate. Pick your number, own it 🌈
  • -q, --quality NUMBER — the resampling quality, and it works just like the SFZ sample_quality opcode. Send a 1 and you get linear interpolation of the source samples; go higher and you get increasingly better algorithms. So like, more number = more fancy, periodt 🔥
  • -p, --polyphony NUMBER — the maximum polyphony, aka how many voices get to be main character at once 👑
  • -v, --verbose — verbose output. For when you simply must know everything 🫶
  • --log PREFIX — produce logs. Yep, with a PREFIX and everything 🍓
  • --use-eot — ends the rendering at the last End of Track MIDI message. No lingering, no extra silence, we love a clean exit 💀
  • -h, --help — shows the help. The classic. The icon 💜

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

🙈 BUGS 🙈

Check out the main repository at https://github.com/sfztools/sfizz — that's where the bug lore lives, bestie 😭

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

The contributors are all listed on the main repository at https://github.com/sfztools/sfizz. Shoutout to every single one of them, fr fr 🫶

lowkey reminder: the URLs and repository names above are exactly as written in the original, so don't go retyping them from memory, mkay? 💅

And that's the page! 🦋 Signing off with the deets: this is version 1.2.3, dated 2026-08-20, and honestly? Slay. Go render something beautiful, bestie 💖✨🎀

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