Newbie sound font question

[daniloL (Lujambiodanilo)]

Hi,
I am using Ubuntu Studio and I am trying to learn how to use ardour in my road as a pianist amateur.
Currently I can record my electric piano using midi input , and for the sound I am using Calf Fluidsynth with FluidR3_GM.sf2 sound font.
I want to improve the sound of the piano. I was looking for others possibilities and I downloaded SalamanderGrandPiano and maestro grand piano . But I couldn’t find understable docs in how to use them . I tried to load the sfz file from SalamanderGrandPiano into Calf Fluidsynth and Ardour crashed with these error messages:
fluidsynth: warning: SDL2 not initialized, SDL2 audio driver won’t be usable
fluidsynth: error: Not a RIFF file

Please, if my question is very basic , give me some link or resource to study and understand what is the thing that I am doing in a wrong way.
Thanks a lot !

[bluebones]

SFZ soundfonts in Ardour

After some researching what I understand would be the alternatives for making this work: Linuxsampler: requires some understanding of command line for configuring the libraries and apparently is not the most stable thing in the world. That understanding is beyond me, forever I think. Carla: initially made use of Linuxsampler but now moved to SFzero, requires understanding of “Carla” xD one has to put the right folders in the right places I imagine. This I could give a try, but don’t know reall…

[daniloL (Lujambiodanilo)]

yes !!!
Thank you ! I was be able to install sfizz and load the Salamander Grand Piano sfz file.
It sounds a lot better
Thanks again !