Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
FontStack is a 'fontastic' new AUv3 plugin for iOS which can be loaded into your favorite DAW allowing you to utilize all those wonderful and nostalgic SF2 SoundFonts you've collected over the years.
The SoundFont standard was created back in the early 90s, and made famous by the SoundBlaster series of sound cards. With the introduction of the Amiga, it spawned a host of musical creation tools called Trackers, which allowed the Amiga to load these SoundFonts and create sophisticated musical scores of 4 or 8 tracks.
Today we don't use trackers so much, but there is a wealth of free SF2 files available on the internet just waiting to be loaded into FontStack. A SoundFont comprises a file with an .sf2 file extension. This file contains a set of samples, instruments, and presets. FontStack enables you to load one or more SoundFonts into its 4 layers, and use them in lots of creative ways. You can layers in a stack to create a rich combination of multiple tones, or assign each instrument its own key range on the keyboard to create virtual splits, or a mixture of the two.
FontStack is a 'fontastic' new AUv3 plugin for iOS which can be loaded into your favorite DAW allowing you to utilize all those wonderful and nostalgic SF2 SoundFonts you've collected over the years.
The SoundFont standard was created back in the early 90s, and made famous by the SoundBlaster series of sound cards. With the introduction of the Amiga, it spawned a host of musical creation tools called Trackers, which allowed the Amiga to load these SoundFonts and create sophisticated musical scores of 4 or 8 tracks.
Today we don't use trackers so much, but there is a wealth of free SF2 files available on the internet just waiting to be loaded into FontStack. A SoundFont comprises a file with an .sf2 file extension. This file contains a set of samples, instruments, and presets. FontStack enables you to load one or more SoundFonts into its 4 layers, and use them in lots of creative ways. You can layers in a stack to create a rich combination of multiple tones, or assign each instrument its own key range on the keyboard to create virtual splits, or a mixture of the two.
