[linux-audio-user] sf2 soundfont spec license

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:08 -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:53:58PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > > If it is not open enough to take advantage of then is there
> > > any truly open soundfont-like standard anywhere on the
> > > planet?
> > for me it somehow looks as there's need to define a new, 
> > absolutely free file format for sampling data.
> > Unfortunately, this would need lots of time and resources, and 
> > as 'we' are not enough users, it wouldn't be spread widely 
> > enough.
> 
> I don't know how featurefull it is, but specimen's beef bank format
> might be worth looking into. I chatted with the author a while ago on
> #lad at freenode. My fuzzy memory is that it uses xml and wouldn't be
> too hard to script.

The result won't be useable by any emu10k1 soundfont loader.  Or
fluidsynth.  Or anything.

Please, is it REALLY necessary to reinvent the wheel here, when there
are so many other outstanding issues with Linux audio?

Lee