Have you ever been facing a whole lot of soundfonts downloaded in a few shots from the Internet, not knowing which ones were compatible with your music? Testing soundfonts can take a lot of time because you don't know which programs and banks are valid for a chosen one.
Thus I wrote a little Perl utility to help make a choice among them. All you'll have to do before using it is setting two environment variables : CS_PATH to your Csound executable, and SF2_PATH, to the root of your soundfonts directory. Then running sf2test.pl will show the soundfonts' contents and let you play them a little and record some comment about each one of them without having to change manually any .csd file.
This script can be found on http://csgrouper.wordpress.com/utilities/ as well as a few other utilities for Csound users. On the same blog you will find a link to Csgrouper, the Computer Aided Inspiration Program (only for the brave).
Cheers!
sf2test.pl: a utility to test your soundfonts with Csound
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Re: sf2test.pl: a utility to test your soundfonts with Csoun
A regex mistake in the first version. Fixed.