[linux-audio-user] sf2 soundfont spec license

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Mar 10 18:10:48 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:52 +0000, james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 05:33PM -0500, Lee Revell spake thus:
> > Wouldn't fluidsynth be a good place to start?  It's command line, and it
> > can load soundfonts and dump info on them already.  Plus it's a good
> > synth.
> 
> Well, I'm looking at libinstpatch, which is what swami uses to process
> sf2 files.  If it doesn't do what we need, then I'll start looking
> elsewhere.  I'm expecting this to be the one to use though, since it's
> the file processing part of a patch editor.

OK.  Someone should describe their idea of how an accessible soundfont
editor should work.

Does swami let you work with a MIDI keyboard, and assemble samples into
a soundfont while you play?  Any soundfont editor that didn't have the
synth part built in would not be very usable.

Lee




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